Netscape's engineers spend early 1998 racing to rebuild the company's web browser while the company itself is losing ground to Microsoft. The film follows their decision to give away the browser's source code for free, inviting outside programmers anywhere in the world to fix bugs and add features, a move that had no real precedent for a company still trying to survive commercially. Cameras sit in on the internal meetings, hallway arguments, and late-night coding sessions inside Netscape's Silicon Valley offices as the team debates what open-sourcing actually means for a business built on selling software licenses. Interviews with the engineers track the mix of excitement and dread as they hand control of their code to strangers on the internet, unsure whether the community will improve it or fragment it. Shot during the peak of the dot-com boom and broadcast on PBS, the film catches Netscape's gamble in real time, before anyone knew it would help set the template for open-source development that companies still use today.