On 23 Nov 98, at 20:50, Andreas Ramos wrote:
> >>Report: America Online in works to buy Netscape
> AOL bought Netscape's portal for nothing (swap stock and take over it,
> thus basically get their stock back again.) Since SUN gets the servers and
> the browser is worthless since it's public domain, AOL gets the brand name
I don't think public domain killed what was already a "free product".
I myself was never impressed with Netscape. I would have been very
interested if they had worked with linux. Not that I hate MS or
anything but the more free choices in the marketplace the better.
> and the portal. AOL's interface will be the Netscape browser. Will
> Netscape users abandon the Netscape browser? Will Netscape True Believers
> become AOL users? Time to polish off those AOL diskettes.
Nothing of the kind. The worry will be the shadow of MS on the net.
Although I use the MS browser, I do not develop for it. Will AOL
really develop Netscape as a browser??? What did AOL do with
AOLserver?
> What a sad end to Netscape. Already in early 1998, I heard VCs at
I was never impressed with them.
> What an irony. Remember when AOL users were newbies and AOL had to teach
> its users how to post on Usenet without being flamed? AOL, the ultimate
> luser company, now owns Netscape.
AOL's users are still newbies. I am not surprised that the ignorant
are winning. It is happening everywhere.
> It's not a marriage; it's serial killer rape. AOL's CEO Steve Case
> employees. They bought the name and the portal. AOL will dismember
> Netscape.
One of our websites were listed on the site of the day at Netscape.
That listing drove about 20 times more people to the website than any
other link. Netscape never really used their position. Business is
not easy. We are in a gold-rush but how many of us are getting rich?
It is simply not as easy as many assume.
I think this could be a big boost for Apache.
I recently tried compuserver again. What a joke, a complete joke.
They had some proprietary interface. And this company is now owned
by AOL. I think the problem is a move back towards the cave.
Peter
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