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AOL Lays Off 50 Netscape Coders
xcable points out a CNET story which begins "America Online on Tuesday said it has laid off 50 employees involved in Web browser development at its Netscape subsidiary amid a reorganization of its Mozilla open-source browser team," and offers a reminder that "AOL recently made a deal with Microsoft to use IE in future AOL releases." This adds a bit more detail to yesterday's (updated) story about the establishment of the Mozilla foundation.
Trying to stuff as many AOL icons in as possible.
[SIG] It's like putting a moose in the blender -- a recipe for disaster!
We have to complete our assimilation of the Alpha quadrant.
Wrong. MS does not support alpha chips anymore. Hey, even Compaq/HP does not support them anymore!
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
Given the layoff of the 50 programmers at AOL, I think that the newly-formed Mozilla Foundation (the "MF"...heh) should hold a bake sale and use the proceeds to hire 50 programmers from New Dehli to replace them. the MF will need to raise at least $50 or $60 bucks to get started...
GF.
Lots of petrified grits
Perfected art of staring at monitor and 'zoning out' while pretending to work.
Meh, just like Microsoft Office, this can be placed on anyone one of our resumes.
sin(6cos(r)+5A)
Hey! Without my job at Netscape, I would never have the free time to post this comment!
/syle
Bob Slydell: The Netscape developers.
Bill Lumbergh: Who're they?
Bob Porter: You know, squirrely looking guys, mumble a lot.
Bill Lumbergh: Oh, yeah.
Bob Slydell: Yeah, we can't actually find a record of them being current employees here.
Bob Porter: I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that they were laid off five years ago and no one ever told them, but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, they still get paychecks.
Bob Slydell: So we just went a ahead and fixed the glitch.
Bill Lumbergh: Great.
Dom Portwood: So um, the Netscape developers have been let go?
Bob Slydell: Well just a second there, professor. We uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So they won't be receiving paychecks anymore, so it will just work itself out naturally.
Bob Porter: We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible. Problem solved from your end.
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The parent post should be modded down.
If we can't retain a degree of levity at times like this, then the terrorists have already won.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.