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To: 16yearcycle who wrote (26697)	11/24/1998 8:55:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 70976

Eugene, "Valley Companies Rocked By Fab Shutdown" (11/24/98, 12:49 p.m. ET) By Crista Souza, Electronic Buyers' News techweb.com G.

To: 16yearcycle who wrote (26697)	11/24/1998 9:20:00 PM
From: blake_paterson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

OT Now here's somebody who's really PO'ed about Netscape: NETSCAPE SELLS OUT THE NET smartmoney.com excerpt: <...Instead, Netscape has given away its browser, the very thing that got everyone so enthused about the Net in the first place, to a private club, Losers Online. America Online embodies many of the qualities for which Microsoft is most admired: Its products are terrible; it treats its customers like garbage; and like Microsoft, it dreams of owning everything in cyberspace so as to exact a fee for each mouse click. That Netscape should crumble is sad, but sadder still, and rather pathetic, is its turning over the heart and soul of the Internet to a shop whose craven instincts are inimical to everything for which the company has labored so long....>