From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Nov 4 01:36:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA24248 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 01:36:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [207.211.168.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA24243 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 01:36:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com ([133.8.10.23]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA10249; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 01:36:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <364020B1.A21D6174@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 18:38:57 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Drew Baxter CC: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internet Explorer and UNIX References: <199811031907.MAA02861@usr05.primenet.com> <4.1.19981103170405.00a94280@genesis.ispace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Drew Baxter wrote: > > Microsoft also bought into Web Browsers. By basing their product off of > Mosaic, they enter yet another market where there is already a more capable > company (Netscape) producing a product that is their sole reason for > existance. Netscape makes products for the web and having to do with the > net and the web. > > I would buy a toaster from Proctor-Silex, not from the Seiko Watch Company. > People and corporations need to learn to have a DISTINCT existance in a > market, and leave the one-level marketplaces alone, ESPECIALLY Netscape. > It's one thing to make a product to compete with a company that isn't > fulfilling their end of the bargain, it's another to try to eradicate them > with the ability of hiring a ton of programmers and submerge them with > their 86%(?) Home OS Power.. Now, come on! Microsoft had very good reasons to compete in the browser market! If Internet-based client-server applications became too important, the operating system you were running wouldn't matter! That meant Microsoft needed things like FrontPage (sp?) and that horrible alternative to Java they have that I have even forgotten it's name (no, don't remind me!). And, if they wanted that, they needed a server *and* a client. A client they could control, of course. Moreover, at the time MS decided to get into this market, it was widely claimed by the press that "browser" software would *replace the desktop UI*. That *is* a very serious treat to Microsoft. If the public can't see it, it doesn't matter. That's why Windows 95 is an "operating system", instead of a GUI over an operating system. You may hate them, and they may have been _illegally_ unfair, but it was *not* something out of the blue. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com You can't modify a constant, float upstream, win an argument with the IRS, or satisfy this compiler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message