NetscapeMorph II

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

In responding to Mr. Field, I find his experience completely baffling.  As I
had said earlier, I have never heard anything like it; but there are
stranger things in this world, indeed!  I'll keep my eyes peeled in the
newsgroups to see if this is occurring with others, and if so, how and why.
Interesting...

In response to Mr. Dahlgren:
No, I don't have a copy of Mosaic, although I would love to own one for the
sake of owning a piece of history.  The original Mosaic was free, though
that didn't last very long once it was discovered there was money to be
made.  (The grandchild of Mosaic is now more commonly referred to as
"Navigator")  I am, however, a registered owner/licensee of Opera.  There
are a number of things that Opera cannot do that the Big Two can.
Conversely, there are also a number of things that Opera CAN do that the
others cannot do, such as zooming and total image control.  I highly
recommend checking Opera out by downloading it from
http://www.operasoftware.com or a mirror.  Then ask yourself how a small
handful of Norwegians can write this program and -still- remain competitive
with the rest.  By the way, Opera has plans for a Mac version, a Unix AND
Linux version, and a few others.  ; )  Oh by the way... the download of
Opera WILL fit on one single floppy!

For a link to much more than I can offer on these and other browsers, go to
http://www.browsers.com which is run by C|Net.

While I am certainly not (yet) an expert on browsers, they are becoming a
critical part of my future.  I welcome any questions, comments, and
critiques.

One final note... back in October, I wrote an unreleased opinion on the
Netscape acquisition.  With Jamie's permission, I would like to release it
soon on a website and reference it in a letter to you folks on the list.

Have a great day!
Robert Reese~
robert.reese@mindspring.com

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Robert Field wrote:
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.

Rick Dahlgren wrote:
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.