Les Jones: AOL Desecrates Netscape's Corpse, GIF at 11

October 22, 2003

Funny Ha-Ha > AOL Desecrates Netscape's Corpse, GIF at 11

Former Netscape developer jwz is all over AOL's move to create a low-cost ISP under the Netscape brand:

The best part of this latest bit of corpse-f*cking is going to be the browser: because there's no way that "AOL lite" is going to ship with Mozilla, right? They fired all the Mozilla developers, after all, because they have a new MSIE contract. So they'll ship a branded MSIE.
It will be "the Netscape version of Microsoft Internet Explorer."

That's just so wonderfully head-explodey!

Posted by lesjones

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Here's a petition asking AOL to either take the work of the Mozilla foundation to continue creating their "branded browsers" -now much easier and less expensive with the bulk of the coding done outside-, OR stop toying with the corpse and release/license back the Netscape brand name to the Mozilla Foundation (or anyone else that cares).

http://www.savenetscape.org

An article has been published about this as well:

AOL MAY RELEASE A NETSCAPE-BRANDED IE LAUNCHER:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12818

Posted by: Fernando Cassia at November 24, 2003