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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by baldfat on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @03:53PM (#9220861)
I would say that Netscape lived on and became Firefox.
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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by hasenj on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @04:38PM (#9221259)
This interpretation entails that IE will live on and become Spartan
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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by integraton on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @06:06PM (#9221921)
Except that Netscape was open sourced years before it became Firefox.

That happened January 1998, which was 17 years ago, and 4 years before Firefox was released, which itself was over 12 years ago.

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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by have_humility on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @08:56PM (#9222835)
March 1998, and it underwent a pretty well-publicized rewrite as well... Firefox is not built on top of what was released back then (Communicator 4.x); it's built on top of its rewrite.
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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by yuhong on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @03:36AM (#9224094)
Ah, the fiasco that was the Mariner cancellation.
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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by whoopdedo on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @04:50PM (#9221342)
Netscape lives on as Seamonkey.
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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by nashashmi on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @10:34PM (#9223254)
I cannot believe that Seamonkey still lives! In fact they just had a release a week ago. And by looking at the features, I think you are right. Netscape lives on as Seamonkey in its most complete form.
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