Netscape Still Sucks

I was amazed when I read the article about AOL suing Microsoft. Netscape shot itself in the foot, and they sue Microsoft… Joel Spolsky wrote a lot about netscape a couple of years ago… here are two articles and a quote from an insider: “Things you should never do” and “Netscape goes bonkers.” (Dennis Rivard)

Your comments on Netscape may have merit today, but what about 3 years ago when Netscape was a superior product? While IE may be superior in many aspects to Netscape, you just can't ignore what Microsoft has done to many of its competitors. So how do you ignore the events of 3 years ago that snowballed to today? Or are you saying that they made bad decisions about their product and quickly released a poor one because of someone breathing down their neck? (Charles Raney)

While I understand that I can be somewhat loyal to a
particular “brand,” and I did start online using Netscape, one thing I
don't have to worry about are all the viruses out there that appear to
be aimed at Outlook Express. Netscape does all that I need to do as far
as email, and while I agree that IE may work better on some web sites,
my opinion is that its because those websites have been designed
strictly for IE. (Tina Scott)

AOL shouldn't be blaming Microsoft for the “demise” of Netscape., when it
was possibly their own fault. A number of years ago, AOL bought Netscape,
everybody thought, “Okay, here's a chance for Netscape to survive.” Instead,
through several revisions of AOL's software, AOL kept distributing Internet
Explorer, instead of Netscape, to all their customers. AOL has several
million customers, they could have single-handedly saved Netscape and moved
it to the number one position. (Ian Christie)

Let us not forget that Netscape was headed downhill (due to their own poor design) before AOL decided to purchease them. So, Microsoft made IE available for free… so what? If it had not, people would have had to continue to purchase Netscape for (I believe) $50.00 – which, at the time, was a considerable amount of money. In making IE free, suddenly Internet users had a way to access this new world in a way that was far beyond thier previous reach. Then, AOL purchases them as they are sinking and now wishes to make some money because they bought a floundering company? Get real. (Micheal Norling)

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