>>Netscape died because they were forced out of business by anti-competitive business tactics of a monopoly power. Period. Netscape 4.x sucked because of this pressure, not in spite of it.
I can see where some may hold their sympathies for the Mozilla project, but the bottom line is that Netscape was a growing, good sized commercial software competitor when MS got into the game. If they put out a product that sucked because they were crumbling under pressure of what might happen, that's their own fault.
I made the mistake of switching over to MSN voluntarily on Qwest's prompting several months ago. In december I had enough, and chose to switch ISPs. Bottom line:
Qwest is charging me a minimum of $250 for switching and new equipment, and I've been without DSL service for over a month; just to sweeten the deal, MSN had charged me for a month which I had no service.
So to get back to where I started, I'll be out of service a month and a half, I'll be charged $250++, and I'm gleefully paying for the privelege the entire time.
I understand there are class action lawsuits already started for their WA state customers like me.
I find it odd that the argument seemed to be that M$ is bad because it's trying to do what Java tried, and essentially failed. When Sun came up with their VM strategy, did the author react the same?
Also, I think a big advantage of CLR over Java is that you can use any supported language; the interpreter simply puts it in a Common Language, so it doesn't matter what you're coding in now much.
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>>Netscape died because they were forced out of business by anti-competitive business tactics of a monopoly power. Period. Netscape 4.x sucked because of this pressure, not in spite of it.
I can see where some may hold their sympathies for the Mozilla project, but the bottom line is that Netscape was a growing, good sized commercial software competitor when MS got into the game. If they put out a product that sucked because they were crumbling under pressure of what might happen, that's their own fault.
I made the mistake of switching over to MSN voluntarily on Qwest's prompting several months ago. In december I had enough, and chose to switch ISPs. Bottom line:
Qwest is charging me a minimum of $250 for switching and new equipment, and I've been without DSL service for over a month; just to sweeten the deal, MSN had charged me for a month which I had no service.
So to get back to where I started, I'll be out of service a month and a half, I'll be charged $250++, and I'm gleefully paying for the privelege the entire time.
I understand there are class action lawsuits already started for their WA state customers like me.
I find it odd that the argument seemed to be that M$ is bad because it's trying to do what Java tried, and essentially failed. When Sun came up with their VM strategy, did the author react the same? Also, I think a big advantage of CLR over Java is that you can use any supported language; the interpreter simply puts it in a Common Language, so it doesn't matter what you're coding in now much.