Hello David
On 11-Jan-01, you wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 at 11:52:17 the following conversation ensued:
>
> <Snipped text re V keyfile>
>
>>> After all, I had paid to use V3 and IE5 was free and it works!
>>
>> IE5 is subsidised by the might that is Microsoft. I'm sure if
>> Oliver was being paid by the day to work on Voyager, by
>> a multinational megacorporation, it would also be free.
>
> Surely IE5 isn't, technically, free!
>
> You have to BUY Windows which IE forms a part of, therefore
> some of that cost, however miniscule, must go towards IE.
Isn't that what I said? Look up the word "subsidised".
> It's not as if you can buy Windows minus IE and then obtain it for free, can
> you?
You can obtain IE5 for MacOS, and it's still free.
As I said, IE is subsidised by Microsoft. The money to make it free
comes from other projects: Office, Visual Studio, and the like.
Components that create the content that sometimes only IE will
display properly (by virtue of it being the most complete browser
available out of beta, not through anticompetitive practices - the
pages I can create through Word are fine in Mozilla :).
It would be stupid to expect customers to pay for the viewer as
well as the creator.
Thanks
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Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Website http://www.kittycat.co.uk
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