Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 05:57:39 +0200 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> Cc: "Pete Ehlke" <pde@ehlke.net>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Message-ID: <003901c1db8c$de49fde0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20020403145929.P96787-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
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f.johan writes: > "Even if non-Windows versions of Navigator > exposed Internet-related APIs, applications > written to those APIs would not run on the > platform Microsoft executives expected to > enjoy the largest installed base ..." What in the world is an "Internet-related API"? How could Navigator, or any other software product, run under an OS and talk to the Internet without using an OS-specific API to do so? > Developers of network-centric applications > thus would not be drawn to Navigator's APIs > in substantial numbers. When did Navigator ever provide any kind of API? > Therefore, with the encouragement and support > of Gates, a group of Microsoft executives > commenced a campaign in the summer of 1995 to > convince Netscape to halt its development of > platform-level browsing technologies for Windows > 95. Well, they didn't succeed, because I used Navigator for a year or so after 1995, until MSIE was good enough to replace it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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