Re: [SLE] new v9.2 is out

From: Danny Sauer (suse-linux-e.suselists_at_danny.teleologic.net)
Date: 10/12/04

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    John wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] new v9.2 is out' on Fri, Oct 08 at 20:08:
    > Danny Sauer wrote:
    > >Jim wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] new v9.2 is out' on Fri, Oct 08 at 14:06:
    > >[...]
    > >
    > >>I understand that a new kernel is difficult and risky to introduce. On
    > >>the other hand, I've heard enough credible (to me anyway) stories that
    > >>9.1 was pushed to release before it was really stable.
    > >>
    > >>I hope if that problem exists, that it is fixed before a fine product's
    > >>name is tarnished.
    > >
    > >Too late - Netscape's dead. Oh, were we talking about SuSE?
    > >
    > >--Danny, noting what happened to Netscape *again*, just in case the SuSE
    > >folks are listening.
    > >
    > To ALL: If Netscape's dead, then what am I replying to you on? Secondly,
    > you cannot use IE on Linux, so which is it that is dead? I wish you
    > people that keep on lying about Netscape or Mozilla, would just go away
    > to stay on MSFT!!! >:o

    In the news: AOL building new browser based on IE. AOL owns Netscape, FYI,
    and Netscape is just a theme on top of Mozilla 1.7.

    Also of note, Mozilla is not Netscape. Firefox is not Netscape. While
    it's true that the Mozilla effort was originally founded by Netscape in
    1998, the Mozilla Foundation was established in July 2003 with *support*
    from AOL's Netscpe devision. The gecko rendering engine, which was the
    heart of the Netscape-branded browsers, is a project of the Mozilla
    Foundation. Sure, Netscape The Company does occasionally take an open
    source browser, stick a skin on and tie AIM in - but they're dead as
    far as anyone realistic is concerned. They're not making a browser or
    providing competition to IE, they're making a skin for Mozilla.

    Now, Firefox (and Mozilla, to a lesser extent) is finally presenting a
    real competitor to IE. They are not Netscape, though. They are products
    of the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Foundation is an independent
    organization, incorporated in CA as a not-for-profit. Netscape is a
    company that almost killed themselves by releasing a new browser a few
    months before it was good enough to *actually* release to the public.

    Do bear in mind the separation bewteen Mozilla and Netscape before lumping
    them together, eh?

    I'll concede that the Netscape Network isn't dead, though. That's just
    because all of those AOL, Compuserve, and AIM users automatically have
    accounts, though. :) Netscape Communicator is even less of a contender
    than Opera, though, despite the 9 people who use those two browsers. It's
    effectively dead.

    --Danny, who was at UIUC (home of NCSA, home of Mosaic) when the graphical
    web browser was essentially invented...

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