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You know... everytime I start to like Microsoft....

Something happens to make me really suspect that there are underhanded deals going on. SCO/Microsoft was a blatent attempt to prop up SCO taking on Linux. Microsoft insisted that  AOL/Microsoft was not meant to kill compeitition, but to the surprise of no one, AOL just shut down Netscape. See Here and Here for more information. The browser has stagnated for the last three years because of lack of competition. Sad to see that it will probably remain so.

Comments

HumanCompiler said:

Fine with me that it's gone...I think Web Browsers will be gone "soon" altogether anyway. Notice the quotes around "soon" ;)
# July 15, 2003 8:02 PM

Cadmium said:

Mozilla isn't gone HC, it's just not associated with AOL anymore, which is just fine by me. It's been open source for years, so much of the work has always been done outside of AOL.

And for the record, most of the best features in the past year or two has come from non-ie browsers.
# July 16, 2003 2:32 AM

Joshua Prismon said:

----- This is in response to Scoble's comments:

I appreciate your recent comments. I understand that it's somewhat hard "not to drink the koolaid" some times. In my opinion, the actions that Microsoft has been taking hurts the .NET community more then anyone else. It destroys what little creditability that the company has.

It is extremly infuriating when I write posts like I did last week advocating the .NET platform to get e-mail's back from the community saying:

"Microsoft's actions are not unethical, they are illegal, and no amount of productivity is worth sleeping with the devil"

I am not about to abandon the contracts that I have in .NET, but Microsoft's practices make it more and more difficult for me, as a independant contractor, to justify the platform to executives who are edgy about Microsoft's business practices.

Thank you for your time and well thought out response to this.

# July 16, 2003 2:01 PM
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