[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > John Bokma wrote: > >> No: the historical fact is that MS whiped Netscape of the planet. > > By giving IE away for free, by ripping off spyglass, by _paying_ OEMs > to not include Netscape. By bundling IE. By abusing standards.
Which standards? Again: w3c is not an official standards organization. Moreover, Netscape added LiveScript, oh wait, I mean JavaScript, and the *cough* blink element. > By > contracting with sites to include non-standard IE features to > deliberately break NS. NS also added features to HTML. >> That >> you come up with "They were afraid that everybody would be running NS >> Office online using Netscape" is just a guess. > > No. Netscape had announced that they were working on building network > applications that just required a browser. XUL is the latest version > of this. So, uhm, 8 years later? And what applications do run on the web? >> MS just seems to ignore a certain development for some time, then >> state it's not significant, and next they are an important player. >> This is not limited to "MS missed the Internet, almost...". They >> don't miss anything, they just don't jump on every hype. > > No. You are wrong again. In edition 1 of "The Way Ahead" there was > _no_ mention of the Internet. MS did not notice it, IIRC MS was already using the Internet (for email, Usenet, etc). > and when they did they > attempted to replace it with MSN which did not link to the internet > initially. MSN was free with Win95, but most users ignored it and > downloaded Netscape. Yup, which if it had worked, it would have been an excellent lock in. Not all plans work, NS is a nice example. >> and next they are an important player > > Once they notice that there is a revenue stream then they will buy in > a product, rebrand it MS and claim it is the best, and use their > monopoly leverage to drive the other players out of business so that > they can have all the revenue. So what's new? Can you name all CD burning programs Adaptec has bought? > The only reason that Linux/OpenOffice/GIMP/Apachee/MySQL/.. have > survived this process is that MS haven't worked out how to kill them > off. Natural selection at work. If MS kills off everything that it > can then what is left is what it can't. That's why they are careful with killing off. -- 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
