From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 3 19:57:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F4C937B419 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 19:57:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id g343veq96670; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 05:57:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <003901c1db8c$de49fde0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "f.johan.beisser" Cc: "Pete Ehlke" , References: <20020403145929.P96787-100000@pogo.caustic.org> Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 05:57:39 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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