From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 3 20:34:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF0937B41D for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 20:34:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g344YHr68683; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 06:34:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <008101c1db91$fb81c050$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: Cc: References: <3CAB6307.2071.1076171A@localhost> Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 06:34:17 +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 Freedie writes: > Netscape (and a host of other companies) was > working on a "desktop replacement" that had > the browser as the platform. That's a frightening thought. Netscape could barely even write a browser; I shudder to think what kind of OS could they would have written. Their products were really, really junky. I'm glad they never succeeded with that. It sounds like another one of their abortive attempts to pass off superficial trimmings as solid software, like their Web server and e-mail system. > They were attempting to use the browser to > standardise the desktop experience across OS. Kind of odd, since most of what the average user does with a desktop OS has nothing to do with Web browsing. Why not try to standardize Notepad as the "desktop experience" across operating systems? > Whether this was entirely due to Microsoft > or not only the employees/parties involved > can say for sure. I'd say that Netscape's incompetence was responsible for their failure. Yes, Microsoft worried about them, but Microsoft worries about _everyone_; that's how they stay on top. Netscape doomed itself, though, and would have failed even if Microsoft had ignored the company entirely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message