Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:38:11 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: <des@des.no> Cc: Rob <bitabyss@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>, "Tedm@Toybox. Placo. Com" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> Subject: RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use Message-ID: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKGEMEIOAC.davids@webmaster.com> In-Reply-To: <868x3trnlk.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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> Java was little more than a toy in 1995, and Netscape did not support = it > until Navigator 2.0 was released in March, 1996. There was no way > Microsoft could consider "the Netscape / Java combination" a threat in > May 1995, because it simply did not exist. >=20 > DES > --=20 > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no I'm sorry, but this is contradicted by the historical record. Further, = your argument is not logical. Bill Gates could certainly anticipate = threats even when they did not yet exist. Both Java and Netscape existed = at the time, the Internet was growing at the time, and both technologies = (especially together) had the clear implication that it didn't matter = what OS you were running. -- http://www.businessweek.com/1996/29/b34842.htm Despite MSN, by May, 1995, Gates was sounding the Internet alarm. He = issued ``The Internet Tidal Wave,'' a memo that hit on the themes that = had been reverberating throughout Silicon Valley. He declared that the = Net was the ``most important single development'' since the IBM PC. ``I = have gone through several stages of increasing my views of its = importance. Now, I assign the Internet the highest level,'' he wrote. On May 27, Slivka issued his own alarm, titled ``The Web Is the Next = Platform.'' He warned that the Web had the potential to supersede = Windows. Says Slivka: ``I don't know if I actually believed that would = happen. But I wanted to make a point.'' -- http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,2069360,00.htm One example: the threat to Microsoft's operating system posed by joining = browser and Java technologies. According to Jackson's ruling, Microsoft = Chairman and CEO Bill Gates on May 26, 1995 wrote in an e-mail that "the = Netscape/Java combination threatens to "commoditise' the operating = system." -- http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f2600/vii-d.pdf See section 398. -- DS
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