Mozilla Severs Netscape News Legacy

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."

Comments

Re:Netscape

[Mercano]

There still arround, they've just become the Switzerland of the browser wars.

shades of Dr. Evil

[42Penguins]

This reminds me of Austin Powers...

Under the Ballmer-McBride thesis that open source is evil, Netscape is Scotty and Mozilla is Mini Me:

Netscape, you're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough!

Dear Audal

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Audal,

You seem to have a lot of drive and enthusiasm, which is obviously not finding a productive outlet, have you thought about getting some part-time work in IT? Perhaps try doing some volunteer work!

Maybe you've not yet graduated and are going through that 'difficult' stage. Girls don't seem to like you, the sporty kids bully you. We've all been there, it'll pass. The simple fact that is girls mature faster than boys.

In a few years, you'll look back on these days and laugh! :)

Anyway, take care.

AC.

Re:Dear Audal

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Anonymous Coward,

You shouldn't talk to yourself.

Sincerely,
AC

Re:Netscape

[Tony Hoyle]

You mean they now produce stunningly accurate clocks? Cool!

Re:Includes

[Anonymous Coward]

I would rather think of Netscape as having provided intial codebase and support to produce the Mozilla project as successor and as Netscape having been transformed from the ashes and rising like a Fire Bird, oh @^$@$@$! wait ... wrong analogy .. the um, ... now hot Firefox product.

Hey... given that analogy, they should call it Phoenix! I can't believe no one has thought of that yet. :)

Re:Includes

[EvilMonkeySlayer]

Yes, you could even say it was reborn in a "phoenix" like event...

Spellchecker...

[IAAP]

At the time, their HTLM editor had no spell checker a...

Still using that version? :-) (I have no right to throw stones - I knw!)

Re:Netscape

[Anonymous Coward]

Almost as bizarre as your version of English.

Re:I wonder when they'll get rid of "ns*" then...

[SharpFang]

Especially that current standards are ridden with it :)
Yeppers, w3c-blessed DOM standard has most functions duplicated with
"NS" version, like createAttribute and createAttributeNS.

Re:In other news....

[Caldeso]

I remember that mystical feeling of the early days when people used paragraphs.

Re:In other news....

[Sketch]

> by sillybilly (668960)

> Bullshit.. I remember that mystical feeling of the early days of surfing the net, in a library, way back in 1994, with Nescape 1.0.

You couldn't possibly remember that, you have a 6-digit user ID.

Re:Times have changed.

[geminidomino]

What happens if a feature war breaks out between IE and FF?

The latter picks up a really really big sword, tears one arm and one leg off of its clothes, makes itself look as female as possible, and says "..." a lot.

Victory is then assured.