[ale] AOL in talks to buy RedHat!!!

[Geoffrey]

Michael Golden wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand how AOL messed up Netscape. I personally like
> Mozilla and its offspring better than Netscape 4.x. What did I miss?


Let's put it this way, AOL bought Netscape, and continued to use IE as 
it's browser.

I started using Mozilla full time about a week ago.  Long ago I began 
using Netscape to read email so that I could have a consistent interface 
between home and work.  At the time, work desktop was Windows and my 
email options were Outlook or Netscape.  Mozilla email tool has just now 
become fast enough to be bearable.

So, I like Mozilla as well, but I believe that after AOL bought 
Netscape, they put little if any effort into forwarding that product. 
Mozilla is still virtually unknown to the common masses, unlike Netscape 
which was the original browser for the masses.  Very few folks had ever 
used Mosaic in comparison to Netscape.

My concern has been the growth of in usage of IE, verses other browsers. 
  Just like anything else, once Microsoft get's into a market, they do 
their best to eliminate the competition, through proprietary solutions.


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