[WEB4LIB] RE:The beginning of the end for the Netscape Browser???
Caleb Tucker-Raymond
ctuckerr at stmarys-ca.edu
Fri Jun 8 19:28:06 EDT 2001
> Nor I, for the same reasons you outline below. In fact, I found out
> somewhere along the line that the 'Mozilla' name, originally associated
> with the Navigator browser, is derived from the the phrase 'Mozaic
> Killer' (does anyone remember Mozaic? :) Netscape's raison d'etre was
> to kill off a nice free browser and replace it with their own
> proprietary creation. For a while, they certainly succeeded...
>
I had always thought that the Netscape guys folks NCSA because they
weren't going to get rich working on Mosaic.
At any rate, I see anyone switching browsers just because it's not being
developed anymore, at least not yet.
ctr
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