On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 07:31:47PM -0800, Javilk wrote:
> BINGO! I suspect that MS is fronting AwOL to buy and destroy
> Netscape. And with that, Linux!
Maybe. But:
1) Mozilla's source code is already out there
2) Several competing freeware browsers (e.g. Opera) are well
into their development cycle -- not that they'll
necessarily be better than Mozilla, but they'll
push it by competing with it
3) a browser is only one piece of the OSS puzzle; to be sure,
it's a key piece, but it's not the whole thing
4) You don't think Netscape's top technical people are going
to want to work for a crummy company like AOL,
do you? I'll bet even money that a group of them
form a startup to create...a web browser. Or maybe
some of them will work on a freeware browser.
> And by cutting off Netscape, MS-AwOL cuts off Linux! Brilliant
> strategy!!! Who will use Linux, when there is no decent web browser? Who
> will oppose MS, when Netscape is gone???
Relax. The OSS movement -- of which Linux is one part, FreeBSD is
another, KDE and GNOME and Mozilla and Apache and sendmail and BIND
are others, and there are a hundred other pieces, is far too big
already to be stopped by traditional corporate power plays and litigation.
The avalanche has already started.
It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
- Kosh
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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