"Matt Garrish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> "Matt Garrish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Eventually the hope is that your OS and browser >>> will become the only means of accessing the internet. And if your OS >>> and browser are the only way to access the Internet, who in their >>> right mind would use another system? >> >> It's not happening, so what are you talking about? Any developer >> hoping the above has no clue what he/she is developing. > > What happened is irrelevant to what the desire was of M$ when it set > out to take the browser market away from Netscape. When you control > the OS market and make your browser a tied component of it and to the > benefit of yourself only, you limit the ability of anyone else to > compete. > > I'm still waiting for you to enlighten the rest of us as to the real > reason, though.
The same reason why Google is into IM, GMail, WIFI, and many other things. And Apple into music, phones, you name it. Just don't bet on one horse. -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ I ploink googlegroups.com :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
