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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. Netscape by PlayCleverFully · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They are still around? They dont really fit into the "browser wars" at all.

    Maybe, but I doubt it.. People are either going to go with Internet Explorer or FireFox/Opera for customization.

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  2. 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."

  3. 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?

  4. And WTF are you smoking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    All Netscape did was lose, partly because IE at the time was superior and partly because Microsoft broke the law.

    Um, you were right everywhere except when you said that IE was superior. It never has been, and never will be. Watch how much better a PC runs without IE by removing it with LitePC. Seeing is believing.

    Unforunately the new Netscapes (since version 8) are garbage now that they "require" IE. It's a shame, really. The older versions of Netscape were good (except for 6.0, of course.)