Netscape wasn't just some "shrink-wrap software vendor." They were "the internet company" of their day. They didn't just make a browser; they made a lot of th

Netscape wasn't just some "shrink-wrap software vendor." They were "the internet company" of their day. They didn't just make a browser; they made a lot of their money on the server side. Obviously Google does have the benefit of a decade and a half of additional experience and technology and so on, and they can definitely scale better than anyone past or present. But let's not mangle our history too badly.