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Mozilla Severs Netscape News Legacy

Posted by Zonk on from the you-can-never-go-home-again dept.

Juha-Matti Laurio writes "After years of official separation, Mozilla is just now shaking off some of the last vestiges of its parental association with Netscape. From the article: 'Mozilla's Usenet public newsgroups have been moved from netscape.public.mozilla.* to just mozilla.*. The renaming officially ends Mozilla's public Netscape news legacy after more than 8 years of active use. Most of the approximately 63 different newsgroups that began with the old moniker have now been officially abandoned.' Related: Earlier this week Netscape Communications released version 8.1 of its Netscape Browser."

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  1. Do I even need to say anything? by Nuclear+Elephant · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    After years of official separation, Mozilla is just now shaking off some of the last vestiges of its parental association with Netscape.

    Related: Earlier this week Netscape Communications released version 8.1 of its Netscape Browser."

  2. Re:Includes by user24 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    so it's still just a bunch of useless freeware wrapped around a second-rate browser, eh?

    Honestly, why are they even bothering?