On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:32:10AM +0200, Zvi Har'El wrote: > > I don't know about why AOL did it, but judging from past experience, it will > be good for Linux. The experience I am refering to is Netscape. If I recall > correctly, Netscape started as non-free software (albeit free for educational > institutions), and it is now a big open-source project - Mozilla. Did the > purchase of Netscape by AOL prevented this to happen, or helped it? You should > judge.
Netscape opensourced Mozilla well before the AOL purchase. AOL had nothing to do with it, and I don't think they could have really stopped it even if they wanted to. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
