From: Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> looks like IE and media player are going to be (being?) ported. > >ok, this is interesting to me from a different perspective. MS seem to >revolve around the dollar, so why are they doing this? is it >going to be >freeware? open source? or a commercial app? > >i would certainly use it if it were to be free. I would say it will be close source, freeware. The reason for Microsoft doing this is fairly obvious - if they control the browser on all relavent platforms then they get a certain degree of control over the servers that deliver the pages. They can change IE and IIS to work togethter better than IE and Apache do. It basically gives them leverage from one market to another. Hey aren't they in trouble for this already? My view is it will do the same trick Mindcraft did for the kernel. IE will come out for Linux and suddenly the Mozilla project will get a lot more support. John Wiltshire -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
