Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > > > You confuse market share, e.g., the decision by most consumers to > > choose Windows over OS/2 or Plan 9 or DrDOS, etc. > > How are the consumers who can't cope with the Web and have to use the AOL > version meant to be able to learn UNIX or Plan-9? I take it you've never seen Irix or GNOME or KDE. Irix is a System 5 distro that mimics the Macintosh desktop quite well for SGI machines. KDE and GNOME are available for RedHat and other linux or BSD distributions and implement a full desktop just like Loser "98". There's even KDE for things like Solaris. As a matter of fact, the latest Redhat install runs in a GUI mode and is quite easy to install and use. Hell, the grandfather of a friend of mine got so sick of Windows 95 about three years ago, that he blew it all away and installed Linux from a free CD he got off a magazine. And this guy's not by any stretch of the imagination a unix or computer guy. It's not THAT hard. Please don't project your lack of ability and skill onto the population at large. It only serves to show your shortcommings. > I didn't so much mind the crashing as the ad hoc unilateral extensions that > were thrown into the spec. Cookies were a very bad solution to the problem > they were meant to solve. There were far better solutions available. > Netscape unilatertaly defined a proprietary extension that has become a > major threat to privacy. Oh, and this is bad when Netscape does it, but when Microsoft implements just about everything in a proprietary manner, it's golden and you defend it? > Netscape did not invent the Web but they tried very hard to give the > impression that they did. Oh, I'd say they did. Mark Andersen, lest you forgot your history again, wrote Mosaic. The first web browser. Then he went on to create Netscape. Sure, there was previous work like ftp and gopher, but none took off like the web. -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net ------------
