[KLUG Members] Is this the end of Netscape?

[Bob Kanaley]

IMHO.
I suspect that the M$/AOL love fest is more about M$ pushing hard on DMCA
and Palladium. M$ is, of course, only trying to secure their own
intellectual property, but by working with Time Warner on this, it also
protects Time Warner media assets from peer-to-peer sharing. I think this is
more the reason for the hugs and kisses rather than AOL suddenly abandoning
their noble effort to keep M$ from illegal monopolistic tactics used to
dominate world computers.

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk@agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com


-----Original Message-----

> They have always used IE.  The murmured once about switching to
> Netscape/Mozilla, etc... but it became clear pretty quickly that they
> were only doing it to rattle Bill's chain.

Hm. my dad has a fiancee' with AOL, and so he installed it on his
machine for her. It used Mozilla (I didn't have a chance to inspect it).

> How would it?  AOL users are a bunch of ignorant troglodytic
> sycophants, and there is fewer of them every day; I say let them use
> Arena!

I've heard that MSN just isn't taking off. MS may have decided to exit
the media business, in which case this agreement is in fact a peace
treaty between AOL and MS.