Is Netscape a Liberal organization?

[rs79bm]

Is Netscape run by CNN or vice versa? I do enjoy using Netscape Communicator software, including the netscape.com website, but I do notice a lot of open-ended or left-leaning polls and commentaries shuffled throughout their website. And most often, the polls lean about 80-20 towards the left. It reminds of a lot of the information I find on CNN, which is why I am questioning their association.

[dighton]

Netscape's parent company is AOL-Time Warner.

[rs79bm]

AOL owns Netscape?

[Incorrigible]

[asformeandformyhouse]

Opera Browser

A lean, mean browsing machine.

[dighton]

Yep.

AOL buys Netscape for $4.2 billion.

[mutchdutch]

Does anyone have any expericence with NRA as an ISP.....I am getting tired of MSN and looking for a new home.

[toenail]

It's down now(?), but check out the Columbia Journalism Review's list of Who Owns What.

[Question_Assumptions]

Try Mozilla, the open software version that works like Netscape 4.7. They are almost at their 1.0 release and it does work. www.mozilla.org

[dighton]

Rats, I left out the most important thing. AOL-Time Warner also owns CNN.

[wardaddy]

Former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale from Mississippi and who has now returned there with his pockets filled nicely is a philanthropist with very liberal leanings. He spearheaded the drive to change the state flag for example.

[djr]

They declared war on Microsoft's operating system with their browser in the mid-90's. They thought they would relegate the operating system to some sort of generic background functionality as the browser took over the desktop. Rather than roll over, Microsoft responded by absorbing the browser into their operating system. To be sure, they responded agressively to the challenge. Netscape cried foul and ran to the Feds for help. Does that make them Liberal? I'd say in a way.

[Redbob]

So stay off their website!
If everyone did, they'd dry up and blow away.

[Osinski]

Is Netscape a Liberal organization?

Does a bear sh*t in the woods?

[Incorrigible]

Nice summary and right on!

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

They declared war on Microsoft's operating system with their browser in the mid-90's. They thought they would relegate the operating system to some sort of generic background functionality as the browser took over the desktop. Rather than roll over, Microsoft responded by absorbing the browser into their operating system. To be sure, they responded agressively to the challenge. Netscape cried foul and ran to the Feds for help. Does that make them Liberal? I'd say in a way.

Who is "they"? Netscape never said or did any of these things: it was a bunch of media pundits and nitwits who didn't know squat about computers who speculated about browsers taking over the operating system. But that's bullocks, as there was never any way Netscape could have installed its browser in a way detrimental to Microsoft, and Netscape was only in the browser and web server business; it never claimed to be in the OS business (and it never was, not even as a fantasy).

And I'd not get too worked up about Netscape's "liberalism" since Bill Gates' money has all been going to liberal causes, too - including gun control, if I recall correctly.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

Nice summary and right on!

Incorrect summary and totally wrong.

[djr]

I base what I say on what I remember from about 5 years ago when this was playing out. I do recall Jim Clark boasting that Marc Andreeson was going to be the guy that would topple Bill Gates/Microsoft or something to that effect. But that's an aside. The fact was, Netscape posted a lot of white papers - very interesting reading - and that's where I recall Andreeson and others outlining their ideas for the browser to supplant the operating system vis-a-vis the desktop.

This is not to pick sides. It's just to say that Netscape made no bones about what they were after and when they were outwitted at their own game, they asked the government to step in.

As for Bill Gates - I'm sure no supporter of his politics or personal philosophy. But that's not the point.

[RnMomof7]

I use Netscape..so do you think Bill Gates is conservative??? Heck even the President is not conservative.

[rdb3]

NUFF SAID.