I dont see an impact at this point.
What's basically happening here is Microsoft is paying off AOL for killing Netscape.
This may deal a death blow to Mozilla as many of the Mozilla developers are Netscape employees still working for AOL. This deal essentially kills any possibly need for Mozilla that AOL ever had.
No impact there though as Netscape has been a non-factor for several years now. Their marketshare is under 5%.
On the positive side, this probably puts us a lot closer to all of the various IM clients finally talking to each other.
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