John Bokma wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>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. > > > web based applications that work with any browser make OS irrelevant -> > not true, since for OpenOffice it doesn't matter which Linux > distribution one runs (or even if it's Linux), yet people seem to make a > point of which distribution they use.
You make the point yourself now: if web based applications work with any browser, people can freely choose their distribution based on their own preferences. - An application works in IE, Firefox, Konqueror, Safari, Lynx, Links, Opera, ... -> users can use it with any browser on any OS - An application only works in IE -> users are forced to use Windows (or one of the other few OS's that IE exists on) -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
