[101059] in RedHat Linux List
RE: How will Netscape/AOL Merger Affect Us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lloyd Sumpter)
Tue Nov 24 12:59:01 1998
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:50:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Lloyd Sumpter <Lloyd.Sumpter@BCHydro.bc.ca>
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It's not going to affect me at all. I've already pretty well rejected
Netscape 4 because it's too big and ugly - I find myself using Netscape 3 more
and more. So if Version 5 is even bigger and uglier - so what? I'm not going to
use it, anyway!
On 24-Nov-98 John wrote:
> Hopefully not too far off topic...since 50% of us use Netscape.
>
> I confess to being a little concerned about the Netscape/AOL merger
> and it's effect on all of us.
>
> Such as...
> What if AOL were to rewrite Netscape's code that made it as
> slow and clunky as AOL?
>
> Will it continue to give away Netscape?
>
> What is likely to happen?
>
> Maybe I'm just paranoid...
> Anyone care to make a guess as to what is likely to come out of this.
>
> John
>
>
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