IE is on the mac
"DeMoN_LaG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> JTK wrote:
>
> > DeMoN_LaG wrote:
> >
> >>Mustafa Hirji wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>says...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Did you even read the article? The talks between AOL and Microsoft
have
> >>>>broken down.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>But then the started talking again.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Kast I heard they weren't talking. Maybe AOL will realize they have
> >>enough customer base and new incoming customers WITHOUT having it on the
> >>Windows desktop that they are finally going to say screw off to MS. I'd
> >>love to see a linux version of AOL
> >>
> >
> > I'd love to see AOL be Linux-ONLY. That way they'd have exactly zero
> > customers and the AOL blight would disappear from the earth.
> >
>
> Who said anything about Linux only? Right now, AOL can't release a
> linux/BeOS/FreeBSD/non Win32 or Mac client because they have to use IE
> as their browser. MS will not release IE for any other OS. Why? Well,
> I would imagine that they can't do it for Linux because Linux is an open
> source project, and as such they'd have to not integrate it into the
> persons desktop. IE loses 100% of it's advantages when it's uncoupled
> from Windows (takes about as long as current Mozilla builds take to
> start). And *if* AOL went linux only, the only reason that there would
> be zero customers is that anyone who can set up their own linux box is
> beyond AOL's user friendly environment and they use a real ISP. Oh,
> hey, troll boy. What's the most common web server out there? Is it Win
> NT? Oh.. hey look at that. It's Apache, an OPEN SOURCE web server that
> runs on Linux, an OPEN SOURCE operating system. When was the last time
> that Linux needed an emergency patch to fix a security hole? Linux is
> BUILT by people who know how hackers can attack systems (and even some
> hackers themselves). They aren't dumb enough to do stuff like MS does
> with it's IIS software and leave it vulnerable to a buffer overrun that
> let's anyone take complete control of the server over without you
> knowing. But hell, Open Source sucks anyway, right? Why bother with
> all this, why not just go spend a couple hundred thousand dollars on
> anything with an MS logo and wait for Bill Gates to appear in your
> dreams saying "You will be assimilated"
>
