The end of Netscape/Mozilla?
June 1, 2003
Two landmark decisions were made with respect to web browsers this week: AOL Time Warner agreed to settle their lawsuit and cooperate with Microsoft over licensing MS browser and digital media technologies; and Microsoft announced that it will abandon standalone versions of its browser, Internet Explorer, forcing you to upgrade your OS to get the latest version of IE.
I have grown quite accustomed to using Netscape, being a welcome alternative to Microsoft's product, and I know there are others out there that feel the same way. What impact will all this have on Netscape & Mozilla, both of which are owned by parent company AOL Time Warner?
I doubt that this will stop the hundreds of open source developers who are working on Mozilla. Netscape only has under ten people working on Mozilla.
i hope you are right. although i use Netscape as my browser of choice i also use Mozilla at RIT and both tend to render my pages with the fewest 'issues'. it would be a sad day if we were to lose either one or both of these technologies.
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