JTK wrote:
> >He's just saying it's impossible for that to reverse.
> Yeah, um, no, he's saying that it's impossible for Mozilla or the Politburo at
> Netscape "Open"HQ to play any part in such a hypothetical reversal.
Yeah, um, it's still just as stupid and wrong. No one knows where the future
will come from. Did anyone really anticipate Netscape would become as big as
they became? Did anyone really think MS could topple them? Did anyone really
think that Bill Gates would make goo on his promise of IE being created and
maintained for every platform Netscape supported? Did anyone REALLY think AOL
would wind up going from one of a bunch of cheesy online services to the world
leading ISP and merge with one of the world's biggest media companies? And do
you REALLY think that when push comes to shove, AOL/TW WON'T take advantage of
Netscape's products?
> > He's like a dumb
> > supervillian. The hero has a weapon that makes him unstoppable, and the
> > villain takes it away. The villain then thinks he is unstoppable,
> > because he has the weapon. He doesn't realize that at one point his
> > adversary had it, and he lost anyway
> The hero had... then the... and he said... what now?
We'll take it slow for you. Man 1 is king. Man two throws man 1 out of the
throne, takes it, and is now the king. Now man 2 thinks he'll always be king,
forgetting that he can be unseated just as easily as his predecessor.
> I imagine 99.44% of the desktops (and 99.99999999999999% of the laptops) in
> the world will never know what a Linux or a Beos is.
Then you're already wrong. Linux has far greater penetration on the desktop
market than 0.56% and laptops greater than 0.00000000000001%. But of course, you
knew that. Right?
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