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The rot started before AOL came along.
Netscape (the company) fell down because they more or less did what MSFT did with IE6: rested on their laurels. They stopped any real development to Netscape 4.x, hoping that sales and their market share would be enough. Their business model didn't count on IE being released for free, and worse yet, they didn't react fast enough when IE began to outperform their browser when Netscape became synonymous with bloatware. The Mozilla project was too slow in coming and wasn't about to help their flagship browser's floundering.

The buyout by AOL infused operating capital into Netscape, but too many of the key players that got Netscape to where it had been called it a career with the company. As a result AOL--and subsequently Time Warner--were actually late to writing Netscape's eulogy. To TWAOL's credit, they DID allow the Mozilla group to establish and flourish into the realm of open source, and did help financially at its launch and subsequent growth.

Back to Symantec...who really cares? I certainly don't. NAV and worse yet, their security suite, became the poster childs for bloat. Have they finally gotten around to totally redoing their core AV engine? Or is it still stuck in 2001, as a rehash of NAV 2002?
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Oh, Brother!  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/08/06
Absolutely  Richard Flude | 05/08/06
Every dead competitor has said the same.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/08/06
I could say the same thing as Symantec, 'xcept I'm not in the security biz  HypnoToad72 | 05/08/06
Fix your firewall Symantec  jimk_z | 05/08/06
Again, MS will use bundling, and "good enough" to beat them.  DonnieBoy | 05/08/06
They aren't bundling anti-virus...  ju1ce | 05/09/06
Hehehe ... isn't it that setting the bar TOO LOW?  michael_t | 05/08/06
UNIX  toadlife | 05/09/06
The fact that you are wrong on all counts demonstrates  michael_t | 05/09/06
Already as secure (and more than) as UNIX....  DiminutiveBob | 05/09/06
UNIX is already MORE secure than any  michael_t | 05/09/06
Opppsss, here is another Linux/Appache site!  michael_t | 05/09/06
Even more detailed list of EAL evaluations  DiminutiveBob | 05/09/06
Right, right.... that's why these people you mention use Linux/Apache:  michael_t | 05/09/06
Probably because they don't host their own website...  Scrat | 05/10/06
I hear the same thing...........  bergmystr | 05/10/06
Yes, and no  Boot_Agnostic | 05/09/06
PS. Symantec has been around for years  Boot_Agnostic | 05/09/06
Ever heard of Netscape? happy (NT)  ju1ce | 05/09/06
MS was NOT responsibleq  Shelendrea | 05/09/06
Dude, coming from someone who can't view...  ju1ce | 05/09/06
Uh huh  Shelendrea | 05/09/06
Netscape doesn't go...  ju1ce | 05/09/06
By the way...  ju1ce | 05/09/06
as a matter of fact  Shelendrea | 05/09/06
Yes, at the university level  Boot_Agnostic | 05/09/06
The rot started before AOL came along.  flatliner | 05/12/06
Symantec is better than anything MS can make.  DragonBRockin | 05/09/06
I hope Symantec goes under...  ju1ce | 05/09/06
So, Juice you tell what is wrong, Now tell me  BXLE | 05/09/06
I gave you the solution...  ju1ce | 05/09/06
Oh and don't even get me started on Panda (NT)  ju1ce | 05/09/06
Where did I say it didnt load slow...  DragonBRockin | 05/09/06
One Care loads slowly TOO  billyw39@... | 06/07/06
Message has been deleted.  myfevertoy | 10/22/06
Symantec: Truer words were never spoken (NT)  JonathonDoe | 05/09/06
Symantec - keep dreaming  jobert48@... | 05/09/06
You have got to be kidding!  Shelendrea | 05/09/06
Wow. Such fervor. Such passion.  handydan918 | 05/10/06
I won't use microsoft security .  Shamsul Kamal | 05/09/06
Symantec's Expertise  JimSatterfieldW | 05/09/06
Strong Words from Desperate Mouths  jpr75_z | 05/09/06
Not so sure about that  Shelendrea | 05/09/06
Gong  lesterjpa | 05/10/06
Symantec Knows More ??????  donl@... | 05/10/06
marketing, marketing, marketing  dwest1947 | 05/10/06
Symantec losing ground not only against M$  PaulEhmig | 05/10/06
Competition in should be in end user service  releasedfire | 05/10/06
Symantec beats microsoft to death everytime  alanrbriggs | 05/11/06
If MS knew about security, there won't be need for addons!  myrealname | 05/11/06
Symantec = Innovation?  interested_amateur@... | 05/12/06

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