Re: GEEK GRRL! Episode 4

"Mel" <rrc...@hotmail.com> writes:

> <ann...@oal.com> wrote in message
> news:tts...@corp.supernews.com...
>
> >                         Tell you what...I'll give you 500 million
> >                         up front, and 10 per cent of the gross sales.
> >                 ,,////,      /
> >                ,//////\\   /       Can't help you, d00d. WinDoze sux. It
> >                // [.]-[.]          sucked in 1985, 1995, and it'll ALWAYS
> >                 |    _\)           suck. Not even my assembler can save
>
> Take the money... ALWAYS take the money... this is the wisdom that Netscape
> didn't heed when Microsoft came calling...

It is the "wisdom" Netscape was intelligent enough to avoid.


> If Netscape had "sold out", then Netscape would be what I use to browse the
> Internet today instead of Internet Explorer...

Nope. You would have been forced to IE even faster. The "deal" that MS
tried to flog on NS was that NS should get out of Windows and MS would
leave them the rest of all OSes. Official statement of NS managment in
front of court.

Of course MS would have then taken the Windows majority and made their
web incompatible with NSes and then killed them on all other platforms.

Thanks to NS not entering the deal, they still have an small Windows
presence with those users who do not want IE, and have only lost part
of the Mac market for it. And that despite bungling up the entire NS4.5
series and not putting out NS5 to bridge the time while making NS6. Not
to mention bringing NS6 too early.


> sometimes "principles" aren't worth a damn to anyone...

And sometimes principles, and the self respect coming from holding
them, are worth more than money.


> Do you even remember the boy genius that is associated with Netscape...?

Marc Andreesen.


> Actually Plan B of Microsoft is to either develop the technology itself or
> to buy it from your competitor...

Usually buy. IE1 or IE2 was bought in from Spry, was called Spyglass there.


> and then integrate it into the operating
> system...

And more important: license Windows with the condition that no rival
product may be bundled together with it, so that users always first
try the MS version and only switch if they think they will find better

Why do you think no PC manufacturer offers preinstalled dual-boot
Windows + Linux? Its forbidden in the Windows OEM license.


> All those little companies making cool utilities for Microsoft operating
> systems over the years have seen subsequent releases of DOS or Windows
> incorporate versions of their utilities thus destroying their markets...

AKA DOS 5.0 and DOS 6.x


> Do you remember who made the first Expanded Memory Manager for DOS...? How
> about Defrag?
>
> Quarterdeck - QEMM

Qemm was the EMM, And Norton Speedisk did what defrag does.


> otherwise, if money is not your concern, you can instead make free open
> source software for Linux..

Which is a lot more sensible.


--
Neil Franklin, nei...@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/
Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer
- Intellectual Property is Intellectual Robbery

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