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DosUSB licence and price (Users)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 15.12.2008, 00:11

> > For example Firefox and Netscape. I am a Firefox user and imho the new
> > Netscape browser was pretty pointless and contra productive for
> Firefox.
> > With GPL only this couldn't have happened
>
> This is total nonsense. Netscape has funded Mozilla for years (and afaik
> still), and Mozilla is based on the original Netscape V5 code.
>
> So there is no "poaching" involved.

I don't think Netscape is a company anymore. It's owned by AOL, right? And the old code (e.g. Jamie Zawinski) is long gone, I think they ended up rewriting pretty much everything. Last I heard, even the "Netscape" version of the browser was recently discontinued (i.e. no future versions), but I may be wrong.

EDIT: Google funded a lot of Firefox. I think the main developer is/was a worker of theirs. Of course, some Google ad deal also allowed Opera to become "no cost". Also, Google just recently released Chrome 1.0 (but still only for Windows, others are upcoming).

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• DosUSB licence and price - mr, 11.12.2008, 18:27 (Users)
  • DosUSB licence and price - rr, 11.12.2008, 22:11
    • DosUSB licence and price - RayeR, 12.12.2008, 09:48
      • DosUSB licence and price - ecm, 12.12.2008, 13:20
        • DosUSB licence and price - Rugxulo, 12.12.2008, 22:55
          • DosUSB licence and price - ecm, 13.12.2008, 11:58
            • DosUSB licence and price - Rugxulo, 13.12.2008, 22:31
              • DosUSB licence and price - marcov, 14.12.2008, 17:12
                • DosUSB licence and price - mr, 14.12.2008, 19:02
                  • DosUSB licence and price - marcov, 14.12.2008, 23:02
                    • DosUSB licence and price - Rugxulo, 15.12.2008, 00:11
                      • DosUSB licence and price - ecm, 15.12.2008, 14:17
                        • DosUSB licence and price - Rugxulo, 15.12.2008, 18:23
                          • DosUSB licence and price - ecm, 15.12.2008, 20:03
                      • DosUSB licence and price - marcov, 15.12.2008, 15:42
                    • DosUSB licence and price - mr, 15.12.2008, 01:31
                      • DosUSB licence and price - marcov, 15.12.2008, 10:13
          • DosUSB licence and price - marcov, 14.12.2008, 16:55