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History of Netscape and Mozilla
Sabah Arif writes "Netscape was there at the beginning of the internet boom. In 1996, the company controlled 90 percent of the browser market, but now its usershare is in the single digits. The spawn of Netscape, Firefox, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Microsoft in the browser market. Read the history of Netscape and Mozilla at MLAgazine."
The spawn of vi, Vim, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Notepad in the text editor market.
Maybe? Maybe not. How about:
The spawn of xv, The Gimp, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Photoshop in the graphics market.
Nah... Perhaps:
The spawn of some Swedes, Blender, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat 3d Studio Max in the 3d modelling market.
You gotta be happy with *one* of those.
"There's companies that are just so cool that you just can't even deal with it," - Bill Gates, about Google
Once Foxfire became stable and usable I switched to it, and some time later it became Firefox. Oh yeah? Well I'm such a hardcore, ultra to the maxx, mozilla fan that I was using Firefox back when it was called Oxireff!
Folks, the score is Team A 95, Team B 3. It looks like Team B is poised to finally beat Team A. What a game! What a game!
Karma means nothing to me, so suck it...
Well, the truth is that I was using f06f143 back in 1998 when it was just a series of hex codes, but it wasn't as stable as Internet Explorer so I just had to wait for it to cook a while longer.
"There's companies that are just so cool that you just can't even deal with it," - Bill Gates, about Google
So.. you would prefer:
The spawn of Netscape and Firefox and has never been more popular and and is poised
"Well, good luck finding a judge that doesn't run a bestiality site."
It's good to know that you read his comment closely enough to find the ONLY inaccuracy in it.
Netscape was out-weaseled by Microsoft. Which makes them the lesser weasel. But still a weasel.
'Nuff said.