“John Giannandrea, a five-year Netscape veteran who cocreated
Communicator’s Smart Browsing features, introduced in Version 4.06,
submitted his resignation and completed his last day of work at
AOL’s Netscape division this week. News of his departure follows
directly on Netscape employee No. 20 and Mozilla cofounder Jamie
Zawinski’s surprise resignation.
Not surprisingly, AOL and Mozilla said they regretted the
resignations, but downplayed their significance.”
” ‘They’ve both done really excellent work in getting Mozilla
where it is now. But Mozilla is bigger than Netscape, and it’s
certainly bigger than two or three people. Obviously it’s a
negative thing for us to have these two leave, but it’s not fatal
for us at all.’ “