DeMoN_LaG wrote:
> JTK wrote:
>
>> bob wrote:
>>
>>> JTK wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> The correct answer is about 3 years and 3 months but there was
>>>>>> maybe 6
>>>>>> months background preparation. A bit of a false start and the
>>>>>> concentration of the mail/news team on Communicator 4.5 produced a
>>>>>> loss
>>>>>> of 9 months to one year depending on how you look at it.
>>>>>>
>>>>> 3 years, 3 months to create a browser? Wow.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nonono Marc, to create a *platform*, Mozilla's a *platform*. Just like
>>>> that wildly successful coffee-named *platform* that nobody remembers.
>>>>
>>> What do you mean 'A Platform'? Thats pretty vague. It's a platform
>>> for what?
>>>
>>
>> Well, far as I can tell, for using up as much RAM as possible while
>> providing the least amount of usability. But the Maozilla Politburo
>> will tell you it's gonna someday maybe next year if all goes well and
>> the sun doesn't go behind a cloud somehow "kill Micro$oft" because Linux
>> finally has a web browser. Yeah, I don't get it either.
>>
>
> Since Mozilla's framework is the basis for a very, very expensive (a few
> hundred $$$) software and that's selling very well, I fail to see your
> point. Linux has had a webbrowser.
>
> Mozilla is a weird devil. It's a web browser. The way that it is
> designed though, the browser is really on a plugin of sorts. You could
> make a word processor out of it, an IDE for multiple programming
> languages, you could make mail and news clients, web page software, just
> about anything.
>
> Microsoft won't be killed. Microsoft will simply end up with 20% of the
> browser share and keep it's 80% of the OS market
>
Preach it.
