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   Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo to Leonidas Jones   
   Re: Netscape is finally dead   
   29 Dec 07 14:36:24   
   
   From: peter.potamus.the.purple.hippo@gmail.com   
      
   Leonidas Jones wrote:   
   > Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:   
   >> elaich wrote:   
   >>> Seamonkey (the offshoot of the Mozilla suite, which was the offshoot   
   >>> of the old Netscape suite) would be better, if only because of the   
   >>> hundreds of security holes that have been plugged since the version   
   >>> you are using. If you're not using it for Web browsing, that's   
   >>> probably not a concern.   
   >> you've got that wrong.   
   >>   
   >> Mozilla Suite was around for a long time.  Whatever coding was developed   
   >> in the Suite, it was then used and put into the Official Releases of   
   >> Netscape.  Netscape 7.2 was basically Mozilla Suite 1.7.2.   
   >>   
   >> SeaMonkey was also the code name for the developemental of Netscape.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Actually, Mozilla was the code name for the Netscape suite, from pre   
   > NS6/7 days. When Netscape started funding the Open Source Mozilla   
   > organization, they called the product, which was considered only for   
   > testing, Mozilla, and developed the code name SeaMonkey for the project.   
   >   
   > WHen Netscape dropped development after the release of 7.1, Mozilla (the   
   > suite) became an end user product, and retained the old Netscape codename.   
   >   
   > When Mozilla stopped development of the suite, and it was picked up by   
   > an independent council, they chose to go with SeaMonkey as the product   
   > name, and became the SeaMonkey Council. Thus the SeaMonkey Suite as we   
   > know it today.   
   >   
   > Lee   
   >   
      
   you're right.  My mistake.   
      
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