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AOL Patent Deal Means Microsoft Now Holds Vestiges of Netscape

Posted by timothy on from the vestiges-are-the-best-part dept.

inode_buddha writes "It's part of the $1 billion AOL patent deal, and it's something that would have made many minds explode back in the 1990s. It still makes my mind explode today. Marc Andreesen points out that MS now has a significant chunk of the old Netscape. What are the ramifications for Mozilla?"

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  1. Nothing. by Sigvatr · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nothing.

  2. Re:Nothing, if Microsoft is smart. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    With the exception of Opera they are not actually alternate browsers. They are safari with some different buttons at the bottom. Apple does not allow other browsers on the app store.

    Opera gets away with it because of that minifying thing they do where they MITM each page.