--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "ddailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another speculative muse in the category of "looking on the bright side": > > a) more people will probably start to use Firefox and Opera > > b) Microsoft, sensing a loss of market share for IE, will decide to > reprioritize their own native support for SVG, under the old "more features > means better software" theory > > c) in hiring the expertise necessary to speed the addition of SVG support > into their browser, Microsoft will find itself willing and able to start new > fronts of competition with Adobe. For example, they will create a competitor > to PDF and make it public domain, they'll donate millions to development of > the GIMP and then bundle it with the OS, they'll buy Pixar and build a > heads-on competitor for Flash/Director and Lingo (using .net and SVG), and > will start giving away all of Corbis' images for free. All this will result > in depletion of Microsoft's cash reserves. > > d) Adobe will have to buy Microsoft just to keep down its competition. > > (hey just kidding -- well, at least about some of this) > > David >
There is another alternative that nobody has mentioned. Microsoft just buys the viewer and ports it into IE. They have done it before to leap-frog the competition (even with Adobe). Until Microsoft makes a decision one way or another they will still be the 80% gorilla in the room. Bruce ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
