On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 08:16:39AM -0500, Brent Eades wrote:
> If it's going to be an AOL show all the way, then this deal would be bad
> news for all of us, IMO. Either way, I don't see it (as some pundits
> suggest) being the silver bullet that will slay the Big Bad Microsoft Wolf.
> In the worst case we'd end up with *two* ruthless, monoplistic flaunters
> of Web standards controlling the browser market, rather than just one
> *trying* to as we have now.
I couldn't agree more. But just as the sheer size of the open source
movement threatens Microsoft, I think the sheer size of the Internet
threatens AOL.
More and more people are realizing that we don't need Microsoft or AOL,
and we never did. (Despite the bogus claims that AOL's push was necessary
to grow the 'net. We were growing just fine without them.)
As time goes on, their relevance will shrink. Hordes of small
competitors will target them -- like all those mom-and-pop ISPs
that were supposed to die out a few years ago.
I think this is gonna be fun.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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