> No, Microsoft killed Netscape. AOL just stopped paying for life support.



Actually the pay for Netscape model killed Netscape.  Free that works
will always garner more users.  By the time Netscape responded, IE had
the market.  Of course AOL for quite some time relied on the gecko
engine as the basis for Netscape, meaning that it was just a slightly
different flavor than the rest of the Mozilla offerings.  For a long
time, no new versions came out.  Of course we're also talking about the
same folks who refused to create an AOL client based on the gecko
engine, then giving up Internet Exploder as the browsing engine for AOL
too.  I know stupidity when I saw it, and AOL hasn't really been good at
predicting the market since dialup faded.


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