Were any of those 425 developers?

-Chris

One of the articles said that it was only accounting types who would duplicate the effort done by the AOL admin people.

According to my story (which you could have read four hours before the Merc story was posted ;-) there were no engineers or developers cut.

(<http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,34500,00.html>)

Sorry to be off topic, but I'm working on a story about Mozilla looking toward year 2. If you have comments/perspective you want to share before noon (ASAP actually) today (Thursday), drop me some email at <paulf@cnet.com>.

Well, this is not quite true. There was at least one engineer-type cut that I know of.

OK--please let me know more. AOL told me otherwise--would like to get this ironed out with them.

I just read on c|net that Jamie Zawinski quit.

Anyone noticed? mozilla.org server seems to be down.

I hope that is just an april fool's joke...

A sad day for Netscape/Mozilla followers.

I hope that is just an april fool's joke...

A sad day for Netscape/Mozilla followers.

<http://www.jwz.org/gruntle>

see top two texts.

<http://www.jwz.org/gruntle>

see top two texts.

i hope they laid off the horrible, horrible "qa department" there.

Gee. That would be wise. Lay off QA. Listen, if you have a problem with the browser, submit a bug. But don't wish anyone laid off.

There were cuts in engineering at several departments - that includes Netcenter, Server and Client division. Engineering cuts affected QA, core and other engineering disciplines. AOL downplays this because: 1) It is true that engineering cuts were less significant than others. 2) For AOL it is favorable news to say there were no layoffs in engineering.

But there were, oh yes. Off hand I know about 6 friends of mine who were hit, all of them engineers.

AS A LONGTIME NETSCAPE USER I WAS BOTHERED BY AOL SHOVING THERE PRODUCT INTO A NO CHOICE TAKE IT OR LV IT SITUATION WITH YOUR BROWSERS. I STILL USE NETSCAPE 3.4 GOLD THANKGOD BECAUSE AOL didn't get to that archive yet.GO BACK TO THE OLD WAYS OF BIZ NOT WITH A CO. THAT IS GOING TO PRODUCE USELESS NON COMPATIBLE GARBAGE. AOL IS NOWHERE AS AN INNOVATOR AND NOW THERE PUTTING YOU OUT OF WORK TO BOOT!!

AS A LONGTIME NETSCAPE USER I WAS BOTHERED BY AOL SHOVING THERE PRODUCT INTO A NO CHOICE TAKE IT OR LV IT SITUATION WITH YOUR BROWSERS. I STILL USE NETSCAPE 3.4 GOLD THANKGOD BECAUSE AOL didn't get to that archive yet.GO BACK TO THE OLD WAYS OF BIZ NOT WITH A CO. THAT IS GOING TO PRODUCE USELESS NON COMPATIBLE GARBAGE. AOL IS NOWHERE AS AN INNOVATOR AND NOW THERE PUTTING YOU OUT OF WORK TO BOOT!!

gecko is useless non-compatible and non-innovative? yeah right

learn how to use a computer, then come back and post your drivel ONCE, not twice, THANKS.