[Gllug] the end of netscape?

[Stephen Harker]

On Thursday 17 July 2003 14:15, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> And verily, didst Richard Jones announce to the hordes:
> > > Slashdot has a slightly less pessimistic take on the story.
> > > Yes, AOL have laid off 50 netscape developers, but according to their
> > > version, AOL say they will continue to support the netscape line.
> > >
> > > How long for and how much is a different matter though.
> >
> > I'm surprised anyone is surprised by this.
>
> Aye, it's not as if it matters anyway, now.
> Mozilla lives. And is being actively developed from their spankin new
> organisation...
>
> All netscape did with the moz codebase was add irritating adware to it.
> (or, did they actually add something useful too?)

Maybe now that Mozilla isn't going to be a feeder for Netscape releases 
anymore (I presume), the Mozilla developers can actually put in all the cool 
patches they've written.

I enquired a while ago about getting Mozilla Messenger to have sender AND 
receiver columns on any mail directory rather than only allowing recipient on 
the designated "Sent" folder which is most annoying. The response from the 
Moz. guy was that there were patches for that but the Netscape management 
vetoed the inclusion of them in case it "Confused" the Netscape punters...

SteveH 

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