From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 21 13:40:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCED37B401 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:40:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA04225; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:39:19 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010221143600.04f11d20@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:39:13 -0700 To: j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Netscape story In-Reply-To: <20010221212930.A11954@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bad morale. The fact that AOL -- a big blob of a company which most serious hackers despise -- had rights to the code that others didn't, and produced awful, fat, ultra-commercialized products with it that invaded users' privacy. The developers felt as if they were working for AOL (shudder). --Brett At 02:29 PM 2/21/2001, j mckitrick wrote: >Hi all, > >I hate to dredge this up, but is there anywhere I can find a succinct >version of what killed the open source Netscape development model? I know >they went OS to stay alive after losing to IE, but all I ever hear people >say is 'not like the Mozilla development model' and 'after Netscape became >a mess' and remarks like this. > >What went wrong? > >Jonathon >-- >"One World, One Web, One Program." - Microsoft Promotional Ad. >"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message