RE: RE: NetscapeMorph

[rd@cottonwood.com (Rick Dahlgren)]

The interesting thing is that what is at stake in all of this is NOT
browser popularity, but control over content and its delivery.

The two browsers are free.....why would AOL pay sooooo much for a company
whose main product is free?

OpenNet Coalition and really anybody who is looking at bashing ATT/TCI or
even singling out AOL (an OpenNet member) for a public flogging needs to
view them all as the enemy to the free and open delivery of high value
content...i.e. video on demand, full featured multimedia with sound,
animation and video, etc.

What all of these companies are doing is competing with each other to
capture you....the consumer...for one way delivery through them to you and
then enough bandwidth that you can send a text e-mail or request more
content FROM them rather than full featured TWO WAY with parity of
bandwidth both ways.

Are any of the Linux crowd Mosaic licensees?

Rick Dahlgren
rd@cottonwood.com

>>By the way, what version of Netscape did you have?
>
>I had several versions including the latest version of Netscape
>Communicator which I had downloaded from the Netscape website.  Only the
>most recent version was eliminated however.  The action was not
>accidental--the browser gave a message after installation that the Netscape
>browser had been deleted because it was no longer licensed to use Windows 98.
>
>I was able to go back on the Netscape website and reinstall the Netscape
>Communicator which I now use in preference to the Microsoft browser.