[WEB4LIB] The End of the Netscape Browser?

[sean dreilinger]

Dan Lester wrote:
> >From all the early analysis I've read on the Netscape-AOL-Sun deal, they
> talk about two things:
> 1. AOL is interested in the gateway and will continue using MSIE as a browser.
> 2. Sun is interested in the high-end server software and such.
> That seems to leave a "hole in the middle" where the browser might be
> guessed to live.
> Is this a reasonable interpretation?  Why or why not?

i feel like netscape set the browser (mozilla) free when they
open-sourced it, that the browser is effectively in the hands of the
Internet community to improve and continue using regardless of the
marital relationships of its parent company.

Jamie Zawinski of netscape/mozilla.org posted a short and interesting
essay on the merger and the future of the mozilla browser here:

	http://www.mozilla.org/fear.html

happy thanksgiving!

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                           sean dreilinger, mlis
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