I really wonder if this is going to be a successful biz model...

Netscape={peterv,glazman}. Jan's gone today, after a short visit in Paris for his legal interview with HR. My last day of physical presence will probably be the 3rd of august.

J'aurai demain mon entretien préalable de licenciement. Et je déjeunerai peut-être seul vu que c'était le dernier jour de présence physique de Tristan ce jeudi. La caméra du couloir de sortie de la cantine est orpheline.

Finally, after months of presence in Iraq, Americans forces have found two people able to precisely say where is Saddam Hussein. Oooops, they killed them.

The Glazoucam is gone, the last picture taken in Netscape France's office will stay there until I find another job

No, Paul Festa, the journalist for C|Net who wrote so many bullshits about Netscape and Mozilla, is not alone. The french online magazine Transfert.net, who tried to interview me by phone and email about last week's layoffs, is another good example of what journalism SHOULD NOT be...

• " La relation entre Netscape et AOL aura duré huit années. Depuis 1995, le fournisseur d'accès américain commercialisait et utilisait le navigateur Netscape, avant de débourser 4,2 milliards de dollars en 1998 pour le racheter. "

  Gawwwwd. According to this, AOL started commercializing - and was using!!!! - the Netscape navigator in 1995...

• " C'était justement pour contrer Microsoft qu'AOL avait lancé le projet Mozilla en février 1998 "

  This says AOL started the Mozilla project. How can someone calling himself a journalist write such bullshits

• " La Fondation Mozilla tournera avec un budget de 2 millions de dollars par an "

  False again. AOL will provide $2,000,000 of funding over the next two years, that's quite different from what Transfert.net wrote!

• " La fondation Mozilla axera son effort sur le démantèlement du mastodonte Mozilla. Des critiques lui reprochent son code trop fouilli. "

  False again. Well, Transfert.net should focus itself on the dismantling of its journalistic team, since it also faces critics for its lame quality.

Update: because of the current post, Transfert.net has updated his article. Congrats. Not Kidding. I still remember very clearly how Paul Festa welcomed Mozilla community's comments about all his mistakes. Journalists able to recognize they were mistaken are rare enough to be applauded.

It's time to release a document I wrote last december. Reading it again after what happened to Netscape and AOL last week, I can see my analysis was unfortunately correct.

Est-ce que la Corse en général, et les Corses en particulier, ne commenceraient pas un peu beaucoup à nous POMPER l'AIR, NOM DE ZEUS?!?

Wow. That's going to save AOL from the current failure of its business model, that's for sure.

Fantasai summarized very well the thoughts of many people around IMHO...

Hey, we can still test together all the restaurants/bars/crêperies in Paris and put you in front of French TV cameras :-)

Pour faire echo à ce qu'écrivait Tristan récemment,

• je me souviens du bureau du fond au CNIT
• je me souviens de Tristan venant rendre visite aux deux nouveaux et nous souhaitant la bienvenue, seul de 70 personnes à faire ça
• je me souviens des fous rires nombreux
• je me souviens des heures silencieuses de codes
• je me souviens des nuits de debugging
• je me souviens de ne rien comprendre à un bugmail de jst
• je me souviens des voitures radioquidées et du tremplin en moquette
• je me souviens des super-pêteux d'iPlanet, heureusement pas tous ni toutes
• je me souviens du rire de Fabienne
• je me souviens de cocktails
• je me souviens d'Hélène à l'accueil
• je me souviens des toilettes avec une carte d'accès
• je me souviens du Côte d'Or lait-noisettes
• je me souviens des paquets de M&M's
• je me souviens de la carte de voeux de Phil
• je me souviens de Ray Whitmer nous rendant visite au CNIT
• je me souviens de l'appart partagé avec Ray Whitmer et Judson Valeski pendant un mois à Mountain View
• je me souviens du building 21
• je me souviens du Moz'Cafe
• je garde précieusement mon blouson en jean CPD/NS6
• je me souviens de la créperie Ti Couz avec Tantek
• je me souviens de mon interview par Waldemar Horwart, et du commentaire de Vidur Apparao
• je me souviens des départs de Pierre Saslawsky, de Marc Attinasi, de Charley Manske. Du licenciement sec de Dan Lorca par cette tâche de Gerardo.
• je me souviens du Toblerone géant de Ian Hickson
• je me souviens de "the code is ready, are you?", qui a finalement causé notre mort
• je me souviens des courses de chiens dans le long couloir du building 21
• je me souviens de la voiture-bombe de Scott Collins, et de ses réveils au bureau
• je me souviens du Can Bridge
• je me souviens d'avoir signé l'affiche dans le Moz'Café
• je me souviens des concours de margaritas
• je me souviens d'allumer la lumière le matin dans le building 21 en arrivant même avant Jim Hamerly
• je me souviens de Carrie Friedberg
• je me souviens de K'Trina
• je me souviens de Beth Epperson dont le bon sens, l'humour et la fabuleuse gentillesse malgré un conservatisme bushiste me manqueront
• je me souviens de l'équipe Composer de fin 2000
• je me souviens d'avoir implémenté le sélecteur CSS3 :not() en 48 heures chrono sans dormir
• je me souviens de Nicolas Pioch, ze best of all gurus
• je me souviens de cool-paris
• je me souviens de Pascal Théveny et de son quotidien 'salut les tarlouzes'
• je me souviens que je disais bonjour à Joaquin Blas en Chamorro, à Simon Montagu en yiddish, à Heikki en finnois, à Jst en suédois
• je me souviens de mon premier jour chez Netscape
• j'attends de me souvenir de mon dernier jour chez Netscape
• j'ai adoré Netscape, j'ai détesté AOL

should record that the last checkin into the Netscape code was made by Brian Ryner the 13th of July 2003.

As I said a few days ago, the legal process for a layoff takes time here, and is more formal than in the US. I will have my meeting with HR next friday morning. I will be officially notified of the layoff during that meeting and we will have to leave the office in the days after that meeting. It means that technically, I am still employed by Netscape until that day, that the european sherpas of Netscape (Tristan, Peter, Jan, Kai, Adam and myself) are the last employees officially still working on Netscape since no task reassignment was notified to us. The last of the mohicans. Eh.

Apparently, Clayton Lewis, former Technical Director of Netscape and Vice-President of the Innovation Center of AOL, was laid off with the remains of Netscape last week. Warning, I have no confirmation yet and have no clue about what happened to the people in his org, including a few we know very well. Clayton was a strong supporter of Gecko, and it really seems that a guy called David-the-liquidator is hunting all Gecko supporters wherever they are. I'll spit on his grave the day the Time Warner's ax falls on his AOL head.

...to the dozens of people who sent me a mail about Netscape's end.

...for the five journalists from France, UK and US who called me at home for an interview about it. I was away for summer vacation and I was not ready to answer questions since I am technically still employed by Netscape/AOL (the layoff process takes time here).

...for the mailer-daemon errors if you sent me a mail to glazman@netscape.com. AOL, forgetting that such an action is illegal here since I am still employed, cut our email and AIM accounts the 16th of July. I can now be reached at daniel AT glazman DOT org

...for the W3C: AOL did not leave us time to unsubscribe from W3C lists or even notify the Groups we belong too. AOL participation into ECMA and W3C is almost totally gone now. I guess this is a good hint about how AOL-Time Warner sees the importance of underlying technologies for its business model.