Re: AOL purchase of Netscape

["R. Reese" <robert.reese@mindspring.com>]

Another link to a CNET story... Jamie is featured as well.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,29216,00.html?st.ne.lh..ni
R. Reese~

James Love wrote:

> Just a brief note to indicate that we intend to raise objections to the
> AOL purchase of Netscape.  Our concerns are partly motivated by the
> following:
>
> 1. the browser market is highly concentrated,
> 2. AOL and Microsoft both have business plans which depend upon
> advertising and referrals for electronic commerce,
> 3.  both AOL and MS hope to play a role in a more commercial front end
> to high speed internet access, and
> 4.  Netscape's navigator provides a useful tool for ISPs that only
> provide plain TCP/IP connectivity, a service which competes directly
> against AOL and MSN.
>
> We are also interested in finding out how AOL will deal with Netscape's
> plans for support of its browser as an open source product that can be
> freely distributed, and which is supported on multiple OS platforms,
> including Unix and Linux.
>
> Jamie Love <love@cptech.org>
>
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> James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
> P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036, v202.386.8030 f202.234.5176
> http://www.cptech.org, mailto:love@cptech.org

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