To put it another way, the Mozilla projects would be better off if AOL would grant the Netscape license to the Mozilla foundation and allow rebranding of the Mozilla suite as "Netscape 7.2+". Yes it is true that Netscape is no longer a force to be reckoned with, but it was an icon that everyone knew and respected in a sentimental sort of way. Even worse, saying "your web site does not work with the latest Mozilla" will often get you a weird look. However, now that newer Netscapes are not being released, this argument is less and less powerful as time goes on.
For Netscape 7.0 & 7.1, this meant good support of Mozilla 1.x as you could write to webmasters and say "your web site does not work with the latest Netscape" to which they usually responded by fixing the problem. Netscape to web site developers meant that they would make an effort to make the site compatible.
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