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Things You should Never do, Part One

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Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long time in the Internet world. During this time, Netscape sat by, helplessly, as their market share plummeted.

There are no other parts. The title is a play on the Mel Brooks movie History of the World: Part I which has absolutely nothing to do with software or this essay.

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Spolsky, J. (2004). Things You should Never do, Part One. In: Joel on Software. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0753-5_24

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