The company had dropped the Mozilla ball by then, Zawinski said. Netscape failed to follow through on their own plans. This isn't even so much an excuse as a stupid, terrible mistake. Zawinski nonetheless sees a silver lining to the failure and emphasized that the failure of Mozilla so far does not signal the failure of the open source development model. Whatever problems the Mozilla project is having are not because open source doesn't work.
Software is hard.
The issues aren't that simple. He concluded with his relief to be resigning from AOL not Netscape. I must say, though, that it feels good to be resigning from AOL instead of resigning from Netscape. Send it . Use this version.