grelmar - 8:29 pm on Dec 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

Kinda sad, really, but not surprising. Netscape hasn't been relevant for a while. The latest version of Netscape was really just Firefox with a Netscape skin.

The lasting legacy for Netscape is really the anti-competitive oversight that Microsoft now has to endure, which jelled because of the anti-trust lawsuits Netscape launched when IE became bundled with Windows.

Whatever the effectiveness of the oversight might be, it basically exists because of the browser wars.

The other legacy of Netscape is FireFox, which resulted from AOL releasing the source of Netscape.

I don't doubt that someone, somewhere, will pick up the torch and continue to develop at least a skinned version of Firefox, for sentimentality's sake.