I agree. Mostly everyone, ever non-techie users, have heard of Netscape and surely they have heard of AOL. This could be good for Netscape. They do have quite an advantage over IE with more web standards compiliance, safer email client and browser (no ActiveX or VBScript macros), Netscape/Mozilla still is not integrated into the OS like IE, and Netscape runs on many platforms. MS IE runs on Mac OS and Windows but the Mac version is awful. I think that Netscape will thrive with an increase in IE and Outlook exploits.
Do not get me wrong, Mozilla rocks and they are what I solely use but Phisbut has a point about their well-known name. One great thing is that Web Developers will not really have to worry about coding for a new browser since it is basically Mozilla 1.7.
I installed Netscape 7.2 on my PC (Linux). My main gripe is that GTK2 and XFT support were not included in the build so pages look bad. I am looking forward to trying it out on Windows though.
I think that the prior art documenting is a good idea but I really think that we need to start writing a lot of letters to our representatives about the problems with software patents and that the system needs to be redesigned. I feel that someone should make up a bunch of letters for people that do not have the time or do not know how to write a strong arguementative latter about this. We need to show the government the problems, we need to give specific examples of open source projects that held certain patented ideas first and prove this with documentation, changelogs, etc, we also need to show them that many open source projects are legal, government recognized non-profit organizations, we also need to show them how this will affect the rest of the nation and especially how it will effect the government. We need to show them all of the know critical opensource deployments within the government. We may also have to express to the government how open source feels about patents and even present some of the absurb patents to them. If someone like FSF or GNU would write up some strong letters, I am sure any of us would be happy to send them to our local officials. I have already sent one but my arguement was no where near as strong as one that would be written by a lawyer or someone that possesses more knowledge of the law.
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I agree. Mostly everyone, ever non-techie users, have heard of Netscape and surely they have heard of AOL. This could be good for Netscape. They do have quite an advantage over IE with more web standards compiliance, safer email client and browser (no ActiveX or VBScript macros), Netscape/Mozilla still is not integrated into the OS like IE, and Netscape runs on many platforms. MS IE runs on Mac OS and Windows but the Mac version is awful. I think that Netscape will thrive with an increase in IE and Outlook exploits. Do not get me wrong, Mozilla rocks and they are what I solely use but Phisbut has a point about their well-known name. One great thing is that Web Developers will not really have to worry about coding for a new browser since it is basically Mozilla 1.7. I installed Netscape 7.2 on my PC (Linux). My main gripe is that GTK2 and XFT support were not included in the build so pages look bad. I am looking forward to trying it out on Windows though.
I am totally speechless ... WOW!
I think that the prior art documenting is a good idea but I really think that we need to start writing a lot of letters to our representatives about the problems with software patents and that the system needs to be redesigned. I feel that someone should make up a bunch of letters for people that do not have the time or do not know how to write a strong arguementative latter about this. We need to show the government the problems, we need to give specific examples of open source projects that held certain patented ideas first and prove this with documentation, changelogs, etc, we also need to show them that many open source projects are legal, government recognized non-profit organizations, we also need to show them how this will affect the rest of the nation and especially how it will effect the government. We need to show them all of the know critical opensource deployments within the government. We may also have to express to the government how open source feels about patents and even present some of the absurb patents to them. If someone like FSF or GNU would write up some strong letters, I am sure any of us would be happy to send them to our local officials. I have already sent one but my arguement was no where near as strong as one that would be written by a lawyer or someone that possesses more knowledge of the law.
Whether it is spyware or not the word "Search Companion" is a bitter term and it was a poor choice to use it.