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AOL Beta Testing Gecko-Based Browser
Bedouin X writes: "MozillaZine is reporting that AOL has released a Gecko client for Windows! Scuttlebutt says that it's based on Gecko .94.2. While I think that the common assumption that AOL including Gecko equals 34 million new OSS users is fallacious (most AOL hits on my site are 5.0), there is no denying that it would be a major - though seemingly inevitible - win and great for a more standard web. Maybe Capital One would quit being the lone holdout of my creditors that don't support Mozilla." Reader SEE also adds a link to a story on CNET.
They're right, Gecko is pretty nice, but big deal. AoL is quite a large part of USA based ISP's but do you think EVERYBODY who has deviated from the de-facto standard of IE is going to change thier website so a bunch of AoL idiots can read it?
AoL's hated for a reason. Thier service doesnt require the brain power needed to use other ISP's. AoL users are generally regarded as morons. check out comp.security.misc sometimes. Compare AoL comments to non-AoL comments.
Just wait until you can only see AOL approved sites, wouldn't that be nice? Why is AOL cheered when they do what Microsoft supposedly did and is so incredibly hated for? Why should I be limited to a set of software if want to go onto the net? With Microsoft I can say "stuff it!" and installed Debian with KDE. But here you will be forcefed AOLs vision of what they want, and they want !Microsoft, not free software, not GPL, not standard. They want marketshare, they want to get rid of anything but themselves, and if they can get that tool for free, they just like it.
Separate media, connection, and OS, don't split up OSes...
Mozilla is nothing more than a slightly-less-crappy version of Netscape Communicator.