John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >> Part of their behavior really escape me. The whole thing about > >> browser wars confuses me. Web browsers represent a zero billion > >> dollar a year market. Why would you risk anything to own it? > > > > It really isn't that hard to understand that web-based > > applications that work in any browser on any OS threaten > > to make it irrelevent what OS you're running. > > And it's even easier to understand that your statement is nonsense. > > It doesn't matter which Linux distribution you pick, all use the Linux > kernel. On all I can run OpenOffice, and get the same results. Yet people > seem to prefer one distribution over one other.
He was talking about the browser war, and gave a pretty good reason why it was important. So you respond by pointing out that people choose a linux distribution for personal (non-technical, non-marketing) reasons. I think I missed the connection. > > MS has a strong interest in making sure it's important > > to be running on one of their OSes. > > Maybe *they* do have a point :-). Which is? Joe -- Gort, klatu barada nikto -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
