NetscapeMorph

[rd@cottonwood.com (Rick Dahlgren)]

C-Net <http://www.news.com> has reported the resignation of a key Netscape
evangelist who claims that there is a real threat posed by AOL and a few
others to homogonize the net through censorship. Jamie Zawinski was a key
Mosaic Communications/Netscape employee (one of the first twenty...of which
now only four? remain) and developed and oversaw mozilla.org (Netscape's
open source group) until he quit the other day.  In his two postings on his
resignation he points to Barnes & Noble and Blockbuster Video as what is
happening to the net, including Blockbuster's policy of refusing to carry
even movies with an NC-17 rating....and that what has happened to the
locally owned bookstore and video rental house in now beginning to happen
to the net.

It is sad, but likely.  Look for yourself at:

http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/

I wonder if OpenNet Coalition agrees....or if they are just excited to get
their next check from AOL and my old friends...US West.

Rick Dahlgren
Cottonwood Communications
402-896-2303
rd@cottonwood.com