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Netscape declared 'Evil' in Mashable's Geek Guide »

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Mashable posts it's "Geek Guide to Good and Evil." Pete Cashmore lists Netscape on the side of Evil, along with Microsoft, the RIAA, DRM, Viacom, and God. Yes, God. Let the blog fight commence ;)

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Trey
March 19, 2007, 11:22 a.m.
I won't comment on Netscape being evil, I'm too biased.
However, coming from a huge Apple fanboy there is no way Apple is on the "good" side. I love Apple, and I think everything they touch is golden (at least recently) but putting them with Google, Wikipedia and the Nintendo Wii... please.
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Neophile
March 19, 2007, 11:33 a.m.
God is Evil. lol, awesome.
You could replace the word "Geek" with "Digg" in the title and it would be exactly the same, which leads me to believe this is classic Digg-bait.
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Neophile
March 19, 2007, 2:40 p.m.
I like that they put Microsoft in the Evil column and Xbox in the Good column. By modding an Xbox, you can root the Evil out of it and make a pretty fantastic media center box.
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terrestrial
March 19, 2007, 6:06 p.m.
I like the comment left by the person who submitted the story, that firefox is definitely on the good side... and that the flying spaghetti monster is more believable than FOX "news".LOL!
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tehranchik
March 20, 2007, 12:21 a.m.
Netscape not evil!