Re: [Jeff Covey @ Freshmeat] We Are Losing the Browser War

From: kragen@pobox.com
Date: Sun Apr 01 2001 - 03:01:38 PDT


"Stephen D. Williams" <sdw@lig.net> writes:
> I'm still hopeful that AOL will some day throw the switch and all of
> their users will be using Netscape instead of IE. For the longest time,
> AOL users were a significant portion of IE usage, without which Netscape
> would have been ahead far longer. How ironic, and incredibly strategic,
> that AOL now owns Netscape.

Yes --- it was awfully lucky for Microsoft that its ally AOL bought up
Netscape at a crucial moment in the lawsuit, wasn't it?

> Netscape will never go away completely and at some point should start
> making a comeback. In the meantime, IE's not available on Linux and
> Linux usage, even on the desktop, is expanding quickly.

I'm a lot more optimistic about that than I was a year ago, but I'm
still not terribly optimistic. Mozilla still sucks in a myriad of
ways.



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Apr 29 2001 - 20:25:22 PDT