Metcalfe is independently wealthy. Remember, he invented Ethernet, was instrumental in the founding of 3Com, etc. He isn't shilling a web column to get cash for rent and groceries. 'Readers are readers wether they love or hate you' is the mark of someone chasing banner revenue. That isn't Metcalfe.
But the events that led to the first browser war were Netscape's server technology and the Andreesen hype about Netscape producing a web-based Application server that would make Windows redundant.
writing the craziest shit he can think up, that's what. Metcalfe (an original developer of ethernet at Xerox PARC) did the same with his "Open Sores" anti-Linux article.
All you've done with your comment is demonstrate your deep, long-lived denial of certain valid points. To a whole bunch of people the 'open sores' article wasn't 'the craziest shit he could think up.' Rather, many people saw it as Metcalfe pointing out the emperor's lack of a wardrobe.
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Metcalfe is independently wealthy. Remember, he invented Ethernet, was instrumental in the founding of 3Com, etc. He isn't shilling a web column to get cash for rent and groceries. 'Readers are readers wether they love or hate you' is the mark of someone chasing banner revenue. That isn't Metcalfe.
But the events that led to the first browser war were Netscape's server technology and the Andreesen hype about Netscape producing a web-based Application server that would make Windows redundant.
None of that is happening, now.
They aren't releasing a version for any Windows older than XP, either. I officially have been forced to become a Mozilla user on the 'doze.
Hell, IE7 isn't even supported on Windows 2000.
writing the craziest shit he can think up, that's what. Metcalfe (an original developer of ethernet at Xerox PARC) did the same with his "Open Sores" anti-Linux article.
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All you've done with your comment is demonstrate your deep, long-lived denial of certain valid points. To a whole bunch of people the 'open sores' article wasn't 'the craziest shit he could think up.' Rather, many people saw it as Metcalfe pointing out the emperor's lack of a wardrobe.
Anyhow. .
Yes. Probably Microsoft Works, IE, and Outlook Express.