James -- You seem to be reacting to a number of deliberate hot-button items in the projected mythos of Netscape. 1) Do you really think that Internet standards are set by "the big boys?" Get a grip. Windows _still_ doesn't include a TCP/IP stack, which much be grafted on with some pain. Apple has done a better job, but only recently started shipping machines with it. 2) Internet standards are set by the participants in the internet. They move much more quickly than any other standards body I've had the (mis)fortune of dealing with, the standards are open and freely available, and free reference implementations are required. I cannot think of a more favorable set of circumstances for the "little guy." 3) NCOM, by not merely circumventing but COMPLETELY IGNORING the Internet standards setting process and adjunct development of reference implementations, has set forth to reinvent the wheel, and badly at that. 4) This is completely incidental to the way they have soiled the community nest for WWW development, which contains not only the "big boys", who can probably take this sort of thing on the chin without blinking, but also a horde of other "little guys," many of whom are even smaller than NCOM. Doug [ who has never worked on anything "for the masses", unless the users of AIX or Non-Stop UX are "the masses" ]