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0 pointsaminok9y ago0 comments

Ironically Firefox was produced as a result of the code created from the Netscape rewrite he criticised.

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emodendroket9y ago· 2 in thread

Why is that "ironic?" I don't see how it disproves his point.

aminokOP9y ago

Firefox was a significant improvement over the status quo in browsers when it was released.

Who's to say that Netscape wouldn't have been just as good, or even better, if they'd devoted all that time to working on it instead?

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