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Remembering the browser wars with Netscape's ex-CEO

Jim Barksdale refuses most interviews these days. He's no longer serving as, say, CIO of FedEx or CEO of Netscape and has little use for hacks. Still - via a bit of string pulling - we were able to secure the business and technology legend on Semi Coherent Computing. Many of you will remember Barksdale as the star of the …

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Alan Pearson
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STOP PUTTING ATTACHMENTS ON RSS FEEDS

Please, please for the love of technology, STOP putting attachments on RSS feeds.

It's designed to be a really quick way to grab headlines, not be forced to download your attachment crap.

STOP IT. STOP IT NOW.

Put a link in instead.

Ashlee Vance
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We're taking ARSE to the next level, man.

Anonymous Coward
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Doesn't that make this a podcast (of a pretty nasty type - one that downloads ALL the MP3s?!?)

DirkGently
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Transcript?

Or at least excerpts?? What a waste of space on the Internet!

Nathan Cable
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Thanks!

I just wanted to drop a line (and probably risk being flamed by the looks of it) saying that I really enjoyed that interview. The Netscape saga was wrapping up just as I started to get involved in the tech sector. It was illuminating, to say the least, to hear Barksdale's perspective.

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