[SuSE Linux] Netscape goes to AOL
www.cnet.com says that the deal has been struck and now netscape and aol have joined with sun. I remember years of frustration with aol over not making versions of its online software for OS/2 and NT specifically. CIS made OS/2 versions for quite some time. I just do not have a warm, fuzzy feeling with the tentacles of AOL wrapped around netscape. Kinda wonder what direction (win32?), that future browsers will go? -- Michael Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
With Sun also making a side-deal with AOL on this matter, I am sure there will be definite support for the UNIX-variants, especially Solaris, and I am sure the benefits will shower upon Linux too. On 24-Nov-98 Michael Perry wrote:
www.cnet.com says that the deal has been struck and now netscape and aol have joined with sun. I remember years of frustration with aol over not making versions of its online software for OS/2 and NT specifically. CIS made OS/2 versions for quite some time.
I just do not have a warm, fuzzy feeling with the tentacles of AOL wrapped around netscape. Kinda wonder what direction (win32?), that future browsers will go?
-- Michael Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------
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On 24 Nov, adcarlso@visinet.ca wrote:
With Sun also making a side-deal with AOL on this matter, I am sure there will be definite support for the UNIX-variants, especially Solaris, and I am sure the benefits will shower upon Linux too.
On 24-Nov-98 Michael Perry wrote:
www.cnet.com says that the deal has been struck and now netscape and aol have joined with sun. I remember years of frustration with aol over not making versions of its online software for OS/2 and NT specifically. CIS made OS/2 versions for quite some time.
I just do not have a warm, fuzzy feeling with the tentacles of AOL wrapped around netscape. Kinda wonder what direction (win32?), that future browsers will go?
One hopes. AOL does not enfuse me with the sense that Steve Case will come out solidly for supporting a variety of operating systems. He could not even support a major enterprise operating system. It will be interesting to see how much impact Sun's side deal has on building a web browser since Sun also has one. I read that aol will keep its deal with MS for MS internet exploder as part of its base level AOL package. As I said, there are a lot of potential scenarios one could embrace. I would ask why AOL would keep MSIE IF they are purchasing Netscape? -- Michael Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Michael Perry wrote:
As I said, there are a lot of potential scenarios one could embrace. I would ask why AOL would keep MSIE IF they are purchasing Netscape?
They probably want their server expertise. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
On 25 Nov, zentara wrote:
Michael Perry wrote:
As I said, there are a lot of potential scenarios one could embrace. I would ask why AOL would keep MSIE IF they are purchasing Netscape?
They probably want their server expertise. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Not only that. cnet.com spoke of all the things that AOL expects to gain from this join. Server expertise notwithstanding, there is a whole bunch more. -- Michael Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Michael Perry wrote:
As I said, there are a lot of potential scenarios one could embrace. I would ask why AOL would keep MSIE IF they are purchasing Netscape?
my understanding of the deal was that Sun gets Netscape's developmental stuff - thus IMHO : 1) Sun has a browser to beatup MSIE with 2) AOL gets a (proprietary) AOL-only version of Netscape 3) MSIE gets dumped once the AOL-exclusive deal runs out next year 4) AOL/Sun have no incentive to stop further development of Netscape (i.e. Linuv versions) because Netcenter is the revenue producing part of the whole deal and NetCenter is heavily dependent on those NetScape browsers that default to Netcenter as the home page... - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Michael Perry wrote:
As I said, there are a lot of potential scenarios one could embrace. I would ask why AOL would keep MSIE IF they are purchasing Netscape?
The AOL press release states they will maintain the MSIE so that MS will continue to put the AOL software on the Windows distributions. I also read in the newspaper (I know - low credibility) that AOL is keeping the Internet commerce portion of Netscape and selling the software to Sun. So we should soon see Sunscape Navigator? George - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Michael Perry wrote:
www.cnet.com says that the deal has been struck and now netscape and aol have joined with sun. I remember years of frustration with aol over not making versions of its online software for OS/2 and NT specifically. CIS made OS/2 versions for quite some time.
I personally am not surprised. I do not share in the "open source" marketing division's naive hope in a corporate entity like Netscape or Sun. The ed on /. did say it all, I think. Netscape is a company out to make money. They embraced open source as a strategic way to make more money in an era where a huge monopoly existed. They are embracing AOL for the same reason. In the end, open source will have been a tool for Netscape, and open source marketing advocates like ESR will soon find out what the corporate world is really like - uninterested in concepts like "giving away your source & products for free" - no matter how well-wrapped the concept is. Coming out of the 80's internet/telecom/bbs world, I share a deeply ingrained hatred for AOL. They have always stood for the opposite of an open, non-proprietary world. If they could, they would be the next Microsoft, and this acquisition of Netscape is their first step in doing so, banking on the current vulnerabilities of Microsoft. Hopefully this will be a reality check for the free software movement - that Microsoft is not the problem, but all the huge corporations like Microsoft. </rant> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 20:05:32 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
Hopefully this will be a reality check for the free software movement - that Microsoft is not the problem, but all the huge corporations like Microsoft.
I know it's still a commercial enterprise, but I shall look forward to the Linux version of Opera that is currently in development. -- Chris Keenan - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Chris Keenan wrote: re: opera I can't wait either.. don't ask why, but I used to have a Win3.1 box that was my only connection to the internet... and I literally *needed* Opera! - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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