jesus X wrote:
>
> 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 it's not Jesus. You should know that.
> No one knows where the future
> will come from.
But we all know where it won't come from, at least those of us who don't
have their religious blinders on. It didn't come from OS/2, it didn't
come from Java, it sure as hell won't come from Mozilla.
> Did anyone really anticipate Netscape would become as big as
> they became?
How could they have? Nobody even knew about them until they had their
15 minutes.
> Did anyone really think MS could topple them?
Did anyone think *otherwise*?!?! From the second the "Will MS beat
Netscape at their own game?" 'question' arose, the answer was an
unequivocal 'yes'.
> Did anyone really
> think that Bill Gates would make goo on his promise of IE being created and
> maintained for every platform Netscape supported?
Oh, I was pretty sure from the start he'd make goo out of that promise
;-).
> 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?
I'm sure Mr. Case did.
> And do
> you REALLY think that when push comes to shove, AOL/TW WON'T take advantage of
> Netscape's products?
>
They'd certainly try to if they had the option, if for no other reason
than to make the AOL "experience" even worse than it already is. They
don't have that option today. They never will at the rate Mathuzilla is
going.
> > > 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.
>
Who's Man 1 now? At any rate, you've got an implicit assumtion in there
that Man 2 is just as inept as Man 1 when it comes to being king.
> > 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?
>
Hey, you're the one that's the Son of God. I only know what the
oh-so-"Open" Maozilla project allows me to know.
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