Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:31:20 +1000 | Subject | Re: Linux support denial in commercial products? | From | tony@trishul ... |
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Dominic Binks <dominic@aethos.co.uk> wrote:
> > > By the way ... Did I really hear that Microsoft is going > > > to port Explorer to Linux? > > > > HAR-harharhar!!! > > > > Geez, I needed a good larf about now too!! :-(*) > > You may be laughing louder and longer. I read that MS intend to > release Unix Internet explorers next year! I'm going to be interested > to see how late they are, and in addition, how buggy they are. > Windows -> X programming is not that simple a transformation; cf > Wordperfect for Unix 5.1.
True. (I saw a VB program that I liked... I had ideas to port it to linux/X, but one look at the VB code made me chuck that idea and think about starting again from scratch using the basic design idea:)
It's just amazing just how much (private) email was generated by this tongue-in-cheek comment I made.
It's true though... apparently it is quite likely that m$ will port explorer to linux; they are already committed to Solaris.
It seems that micky$loth is trying to take on netscape, and it's all part of a much wider battle concerning Caldera, Netscape, billy goates, other weird and wonderful (and mainly rich) people, over getting some slice of the internet scene (especially web server software).
I suspect m$'s motives. M$-net was a big flop and they are hurting. After chasing up some of the (URL) references(*) that people sent me, I'm as skeptical as ever. But I am now more educated in what sort of games these dudes are playing (eg, the DR-DOS/Caldera vs m$ lawsuit). Sad really.
(*) www.caldera.com, www.willows.com, www.microsoft.com, etc.
I'm blissfully happy not to have even one bit of software by m$ residing on my 1.5Gb of hard drive. If they port explorer to linux, I'll still be blissfully happy to go on living like that :-)
Cheers Tony
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