posted on March 23, 2001 05:28:14 PM new
I try to avoid anything associated with AOL, including any sellers who use their service (if you have an AOL email address you won't be selling anything to me). But I didn't use netscape before the AOL acquisition, so it didn't affect me.
AOL finalized their acquisition of the browser company Netscape. And many
Netscape employees scrambled for the door. "So many good people have left
by this point anyway," one Netscape staffer writes on their web page.
"People who were with Netscape for 3 or 4 years..."
http://www.tarin.com/aowhat/aodiary.html
But though the disgruntled Netscape staffer remained, they created an
on-line diary -- "[email protected]" -- chronicling low morale after AOL's
takeover. ( http://www.tarin.com/aowhat/aodiary.html ) Their site also
offered a series of answers to frequently-asked questions, titled "How
does it feel to wake up as an AOL employee?"
"It sucks, duh."
"I've been proud to work for Netscape, and I will never be proud to work
for AOL."
They linked that response to the "Why AOL Sucks" site.
( http://www.aolsucks.org )
http://www.aolsucks.org/censor/
Elsewhere, he articulated his philosophical objections to AOL. "AOL is
about centralization and control of content. Everything that is good
about the Internet, everything that differentiates it from television, is
about empowerment of the individual.
"I don't want to be a part of an effort that could result in the
elimination of all that."
posted on March 23, 2001 08:21:24 PM newRainyBear, the next time you want to copy a picture's address in IE just right click on the pic and choose PROPERTIES. A box will come up that shows the pic's address and you can use your mouse to copy it and then paste it anywhere you want. It sounds like IE needs another step to do this as opposed to Netscape but you CAN do it.
Blanche
[ edited by bhearsch on Mar 23, 2001 08:24 PM ]
posted on March 23, 2001 09:21:16 PM new
But I've tried that and it doesn't work... I highlight the text and hit CTRL-C for "copy" but when I paste I find that it's not in my buffer. And I can't access "copy" on the Edit menu when the popup window is open, so I'm stuck.
Hmm, seems to work here at home, though. I swear this does *not* work from my computer at work! And it drives me batty.
