Comments on: AOL announces end of support for Netscape http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/12/aol-announces-end-of-support-for-netscape/ Your source for Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, SeaMonkey news, tips and more. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:33:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Percy Cabello http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/12/aol-announces-end-of-support-for-netscape/#comment-56881 Percy Cabello Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:15:31 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/12/aol-announces-end-of-support-for-netscape/#comment-56881 linkerjpatrick, Netscape was great, several years ago. It donated the original code from which Mozilla started, in 1998. From then on, as I've said, it's been a slow painful death. As for the Netscape brand,I'm not sure if it'd be worth the price: the web user base is growing fast and every day a higher percent of users have no idea of what Netscape is or was. The name, I agree, is better than Firefox, as a word that communicates the idea of a web browser, but that's pretty much it. linkerjpatrick, Netscape was great, several years ago. It donated the original code from which Mozilla started, in 1998. From then on, as I’ve said, it’s been a slow painful death.

As for the Netscape brand,I’m not sure if it’d be worth the price: the web user base is growing fast and every day a higher percent of users have no idea of what Netscape is or was.

The name, I agree, is better than Firefox, as a word that communicates the idea of a web browser, but that’s pretty much it.

]]> By: linkerjpatrick http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/12/aol-announces-end-of-support-for-netscape/#comment-56880 linkerjpatrick Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:56:11 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/12/aol-announces-end-of-support-for-netscape/#comment-56880 Before you go downplaying Netscape remember if it wasn't for Netscape you wouldn't be here. Netscape still has a lot of brand awareness by a lot of people out there and those same people of very suspect of Firefox and some "off-brand" or generic product. Beleive it or not they trust Netscape as being "real" Why don't you buy the rights and stuff to the Netscape name from AOL. (You, or rather the Mozilla Foundation probably has the money to do it.) Remove all the AOL cruft and give the public and new reborn Netscape free from the tyranny of AOL. Call it FireFox Netscape or Netscape Firefox or Netscape X. You could be what NeXT computer was to Apple Computer that brought about OSX. I'd love to see the Captain's wheel splash screen, meteor shower N throbber return but with the pureness of Firefox. I usually tell client who don't "get" Firefox that for all practical purposes that it's Netscape sans the AOL junk and more current and then they feel better about installing it. Before you go downplaying Netscape remember if it wasn’t for Netscape you wouldn’t be here. Netscape still has a lot of brand awareness by a lot of people out there and those same people of very suspect of Firefox and some “off-brand” or generic product. Beleive it or not they trust Netscape as being “real” Why don’t you buy the rights and stuff to the Netscape name from AOL. (You, or rather the Mozilla Foundation probably has the money to do it.) Remove all the AOL cruft and give the public and new reborn Netscape free from the tyranny of AOL. Call it FireFox Netscape or Netscape Firefox or Netscape X. You could be what NeXT computer was to Apple Computer that brought about OSX.

I’d love to see the Captain’s wheel splash screen, meteor shower N throbber return but with the pureness of Firefox. I usually tell client who don’t “get” Firefox that for all practical purposes that it’s Netscape sans the AOL junk and more current and then they feel better about installing it.

]]> By: $4 billion Mozilla IPO… then you wake up : Mozilla Links http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/12/aol-announces-end-of-support-for-netscape/#comment-56865 $4 billion Mozilla IPO… then you wake up : Mozilla Links Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:30:32 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/12/aol-announces-end-of-support-for-netscape/#comment-56865 [...] a minute. Didn’t AOL just buried Netscape a few days ago? And didn’t it die of the same brilliant plan Blodget and me have just [...] [...] a minute. Didn’t AOL just buried Netscape a few days ago? And didn’t it die of the same brilliant plan Blodget and me have just [...]

]]> By: Havvy http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/12/aol-announces-end-of-support-for-netscape/#comment-56771 Havvy Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:10:31 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/12/aol-announces-end-of-support-for-netscape/#comment-56771 Uh, yah? Uh, yah?

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