Re: not great press: Tech's all-time top 25 flops

2009-01-03 Thread »Q«
In news:i8wdnyxbpaqecslunz2dnuvz_uudn...@mozilla.org, Benoit Renard myfirstnameh...@gawab.com wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: Actually, it was Mozilla 0.6, incidentally, and the first version ever that used a real version number instead of a milestone number. I see. Wikipedia also says

Re: not great press: Tech's all-time top 25 flops

2009-01-03 Thread »Q«
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 11:01:37 -0600 »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: In news:i8wdnyxbpaqecslunz2dnuvz_uudn...@mozilla.org, Benoit Renard myfirstnameh...@gawab.com wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: Actually, it was Mozilla 0.6, incidentally, and the first version ever that used a real version

not great press: Tech's all-time top 25 flops

2009-01-02 Thread Philip
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20090101/tc_infoworld/120226_1 Tech's all-time top 25 flops #14 Netscape 6 ... Ironically, the former Netscape Communicator suite lives on as an open source project, called SeaMonkey -- presumably because it sounded great at first, but the real thing is a

Re: not great press: Tech's all-time top 25 flops

2009-01-02 Thread Benoit Renard
Philip wrote: Tech's all-time top 25 flops #14 Netscape 6 ... Well, Netscape 6 WAS a flop. It was based on Mozilla 0.9, if I remember correctly, which just wasn't suitable for public release. But the real problem is that Yahoo! Tech assumes the product didn't stop being bad, which is

Re: not great press: Tech's all-time top 25 flops

2009-01-02 Thread John Doue
Benoit Renard wrote: Philip wrote: Tech's all-time top 25 flops #14 Netscape 6 ... Well, Netscape 6 WAS a flop. It was based on Mozilla 0.9, if I remember correctly, which just wasn't suitable for public release. But the real problem is that Yahoo! Tech assumes the product didn't stop