X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,3781c24c7875bbc3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-31 16:06:33 PST From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: GEEK GRRL! Episode 4 Date: 01 Nov 2001 00:50:06 +0100 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 55 Message-ID: <6uofmntln5.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: <3bdf2e57_2@batman.vip-za.com> <6un129ccis.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> <3bdf8922_2@batman.vip-za.com> <6uu1wfu1rj.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> <3be10a7b_1@batman.vip-za.com> X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Oct 2001 23:50:06 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 NNTP-Posting-Host: galapagos.ethz.ch X-Trace: 1 Nov 2001 01:06:23 +0100, galapagos.ethz.ch Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.59.214.20!news-ge.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:9353 "Mel" writes: > "Neil Franklin" wrote in message > news:6uu1wfu1rj.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch... > > "Mel" writes: > > > well they passed up a lot of money... and then Netscape the company > folded > > > and faded out anyway... > > Folded? Funny, they are still selling their server software (selling > > that was allways their business model, the browsers were just to set > > up the market for servers). > > Faded away, only in the consumer/client market. In servers they are > > still strong. > > Sure... but I guess my point was that Netscape was big... it was truly > huge... it was _the_ way to browse the Net... now Microsoft occupies that > position... > > Netscape the company is gone, swallowed up by Sun (was it?)... IIRC, part (including server?) Sun, part (including the browser) AOL. > and maybe > they still sell web servers, but they are no longer leaders in anything... > Apache is the lead web server with over 60% of the market... A 60% to which I have been contributing since about 5 years :-). > It would make me feel like an idiot that I didn't take Microsoft's money I suppost ethat shows the difference between todays youngsters and and farts like myself. We did not yet worship money. > > > I'm all for competition with the proviso that > > > standards are adhered to... Netscape still does not support CSS like IE > > > does... > > NS6 and NS6.1, and of course Mozilla (the open source NS), do support > > CSS. I suspect 6.1 to kill off NS4.5/4.6/4.7 some time. Which would be > > good, as those were the worst NSes. > > Netscape got behind because they lost the browser war... it's kind of sad... > :-( Other way round. They lost because they let themselves get in the behind. Complete missmanagment. -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer - Intellectual Property is Intellectual Robbery