Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:39:13 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape story Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010221143600.04f11d20@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010221212930.A11954@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Bad morale. The fact that AOL -- a big blob of a company which most serious hackers despise -- had rights to the code that others didn't, and produced awful, fat, ultra-commercialized products with it that invaded users' privacy. The developers felt as if they were working for AOL (shudder). --Brett At 02:29 PM 2/21/2001, j mckitrick wrote: >Hi all, > >I hate to dredge this up, but is there anywhere I can find a succinct >version of what killed the open source Netscape development model? I know >they went OS to stay alive after losing to IE, but all I ever hear people >say is 'not like the Mozilla development model' and 'after Netscape became >a mess' and remarks like this. > >What went wrong? > >Jonathon >-- >"One World, One Web, One Program." - Microsoft Promotional Ad. >"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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