From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 17 17:33:39 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A71A16A480 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:33:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D88513C458 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:33:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E8F20AF; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:33:31 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: -0.1/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on tim.des.no Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0381620A0; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:33:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 05393844B9; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:33:31 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: davids@webmaster.com References: Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:33:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: (David Schwartz's message of "Mon\, 17 Dec 2007 04\:36\:36 -0800") Message-ID: <868x3ti5ud.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Rob , FreeBSD Chat , "Tedm@Toybox. Placo. Com" , Andrew Falanga Subject: Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:33:39 -0000 "David Schwartz" writes: > More likely, Microsoft was afraid that a portable browser could become the > platform of the future, making the operating system on longer particularly > important. No. At the time (1995), Microsoft had no clue about what the Internet was and how important it would become. That was the year they launched their own dialup service modeled after AOL, and the year _The Road Ahead_, in which Bill Gates's ghost writer predicted that MSN would become the dominant computer network, was released (read the original, not the later revised edition which papered over the worst blunders). Microsoft expected to end up in control of client, network and content. It wasn't until 1996 that they did an about-face and bet, if not the farm, then at least a barn or two on the Internet. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no