A recent BetaNews article says:By agreeing to the continued use of Internet Explorer, AOL effectively puts to rest the company’s longstanding plans to transition AOL client software service to its own Gecko browsing technology used in Netscape. AOL’s original license to use IE expired on January 1, 2001, and the companies failed to reach a new agreement.
AOL says it will not close its Netscape unit “at this point,” which means development of Gecko and support for the open source Mozilla browser are likely to continue.
A recent BetaNews article says:By agreeing to the continued use of Internet Explorer, AOL effectively puts to rest the company’s longstanding plans to transition AOL client software service to its own Gecko browsing technology used in Netscape. AOL’s original license to use IE expired on January 1, 2001, and the companies failed to reach a new agreement.
AOL says it will not close its Netscape unit “at this point,” which means development of Gecko and support for the open source Mozilla browser are likely to continue.