Re: Article from CNET (Only partially off topic)

[Mark Anderson]

Jerry Baker wrote:
> 
> Some people see that Microsoft has been aboe to release 4 new operating
> system versions since the initial release of source code for the Mozilla
> Project and without knowing the fiscal disparities wonder how it is that
> it takes longer to write one browser version than 4 operating systems.

Fiscal disparities and the fact that 3 of those operating system
versions are not really new; they're hack jobs on top of old code
(Windows 2000 is the closest thing they've had to a rewrite of anything
since the source code release; 98, 98SE, and ME are all basically Win95
with fluff).