[KLUG Members] Is this the end of Netscape?

Adam Tauno Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Fri, 30 May 2003 08:02:00 -0400


>>>I ASSUME this will not affect Mozilla.  Right?
>>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!
>Oops, what I tried to infer was, Netscape does not provide and $$$,
>direction, or support for Mozilla.org.  Right?

I've dug up a few other reports, and there was a segment on NPR this morning
about it; seems rather obvious that the Netscape division is on borrowed time. 
I'd be surprised to see it survive past the end of the year.

I think the Mozilla project has enough momentum to survive without them,  and
IBM has provided alot of technology to Mozilla so I wouldn't be surprised if
they took up the sponsorship.  

But the name might have to change, doesn't AOL/TM hold the trademark for
"Mozilla"?  or does the MPL (Mozilla Public License) include the name?