Re: [Leica] OT: software, engineering, and microsoft

[Marc James Small <msmall@infionline.net>]

At 06:43 PM 10/4/03 -0700, Jack Herron wrote:
>Actually, it was Microsoft that was giving away IE, as part of  the os.
>Netscape was better, but cost.  Netscape sued, but wound  up being forced to
>give away the software,  as the customers were more interested in price than
>value.

At least from Netscape 2.0, around 1991, they were giving their software
away.  I prefer Netscape, though I made the mistake some weeks back of
accepting their update, which trashed Netscape on my computer, so I am now
using IE alone.  (When I updated IE a year back, it trashed my hard drive,
so I will never use these automatic upgrades again.)

Marc

msmall@infionline.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!


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