Will Google Become Another Netscape?

kaluta asks: "The Economist has a typically clear and concise story about bringing Google to the stockmarket. Basically, is it going to be the next eBay or Amazon, or will it 'simply be the next overhyped share sale to make its founders rich only to wither away miserably, either for lack of a sustainably profitable business model, or, like Netscape, because it finds itself in the path of that mighty wrecker, Microsoft?' Cool picture too."

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Google will be another Netscape if ...

[axxackall]

... if it begin to sponsor Mozilla.

Seriously, Mozilla is already much better browser than IE, just rough in few places (like SVG, XForms and MNG formats as well as Flash and Shockwave support) and of course used by only a small franction of Internet users despite the fact it is better. Same as Linux as a corporate server is already much better than Microsoft Servers, just rough in few places (like installation) and of course used in only a small fraction of corporation server rooms despite the fact it is better.

But the future of Linux is getting better and better with a strong help of IBM and few other big players. As for Mozilla its future is getting worse and worse as AOL is cutting the financing it. If Google will bring some cash for Mozilla developers in order to fix few showstoppers (like SVG, XForms and MNG formats as well as Flash and Shockwave) it will bring Mozilla onto desktops in more corporations. And *THEN* Google will become a next Netscape to be killed by Microsoft.

Right now Google doesn't kill any Microsoft revenue: with Google or without same users are buying OS with IE.

Re:Be careful for what you wish for

[corebreech]

Erm, yes we can.

Um, no, we can't.

At least six separate studies performed to date disagree with you, and suggest in fact that THC does play a role in preventing and even reversing tumor growth.

And outside of an article the Washington Post published on the subject thirty years ago there has been almost no media coverage of this whatsoever.

Re:Be careful for what you wish for

[corebreech]

The crime isn't that they ignored these treatments.

The crime is that the federal government banned research into marijuana for this purpose back in the 70's.

http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2001/2 2.html

Re:A complete idiot

[Overly Critical Guy]

BTW, modding up your troll account with your other account is really unseemly.

You do realize IPs are tracked and that you can't mod yourself, right?