“Mozilla this week launched the project with the promise of
developing support for a wide variety of chat protocols in the
Communicator browser, which Mozilla is charged with developing in
an open-source model”
” ‘Netscape, the contributor of the Instant Messaging API
document, has requested that Mozilla.org remove this page pending
further review by Netscape,’ reads the ‘Instant Messaging and Chat
in Mozilla’ page…”
“Netizens, however, quickly moved to subvert Netscape’s
retraction by posting the API to news and discussion sites Slashdot
and MozillaZine.”