AOL is finally abandoning the Netscape Mosaic/Navigator browser, as I thought it would, but Mozilla, the open source version, is now being looked after by new non-profit foundation "funded in large part by a $2 million donation from AOL and $300,000 from Lotus founder Mitch Kapor," reports CNet.
Comment: It has been an expensive episode for AOL, which paid $4.2bn for Netscape. It did beta test Navigator as a replacement for IE in AOL, and tried it on CompuServe, but apparently users weren't keen. I just wish I'd thought of the foundation idea a couple of weeks ago when I was writing a column on the subject: that would have looked really prescient.
Later.... And having finally read the Mozilla press release, find I'm quoted in it....
