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To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Free netscape - good or bad ?
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From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav)
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Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> writes:
> I beg to differ.  If Netscape no longer participate in the product,
> then that is good for Microsoft - the Netscape browser becomes yet
> another shareware/freeware product with no real support, etc.

Pardon my language, but that is complete bullshit. Allow me to quote
from the press release which you obviously did not read: "This
aggressive move will enable Netscape to harness the creative power of
thousands of programmers on the Internet by incorporating their best
enhancements into future versions of Netscape's software."

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