Re: Re: Viability of Linux companies

[Arun Sharma <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:24:40PM +0530, Saurabh Garg wrote:
> 	Thank you Thaths for bringing this fact out. most of us 'commoners' still 
> believe that Netscape had to go open source due to dwindling volumes. It is 
> clear now that it was not the volumes that were responsible. Nevertheless, 
> the opening up of Mozilla has indeed made life much easier for most of us 
> Linuxers. 

Actually, loss of market share *was* responsible for the decision, but
Thaths' point was that the idea was discussed much before Netscape
"lost" the browser war i.e. the market share fell below 50%.

AOL was clearly the king maker then, and may be even now :)

Also, the availability of Netscape for Linux was another key factor
in Linux's success. Imaginze using Mosaic for surfing. Wait, that
makes it, GNU/Netscape/Linux ? :)

	-Arun