From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 3 15:14:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7793D37B405 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:14:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g33NEW931792; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:14:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:14:32 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: Pete Ehlke , Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix In-Reply-To: <00cb01c1db62$e3144940$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Message-ID: <20020403145929.P96787-100000@pogo.caustic.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I wanted one with a table or comparable graphic, and with dates and actions. > That's what timelines are supposed to be. The text you quote does not > provide dates. the full text (which i didn't add in) does provide dates. for example, paragraph 80: 80. Executives at Microsoft received confirmation in early May 1995 that Netscape was developing a version of Navigator to run on Windows 95, which was due to be released in a couple of months. Microsoft's senior executives understood that if they could prevent this version of Navigator from presenting alternatives to the Internet-related APIs in Windows 95, the technologies branded as Navigator would cease to present an alternative platform to developers. Even if non-Windows versions of Navigator exposed Internet-related APIs, applications written to those APIs would not run on the platform Microsoft executives expected to enjoy the largest installed base, i.e., Windows 95. So, as long as the version of Navigator written for Windows 95 relied on Microsoft's Internet-related APIs instead of exposing its own, developing for Navigator would not mean developing cross-platform. Developers of network-centric applications thus would not be drawn to Navigator's APIs in substantial numbers. Therefore, with the encouragement and support of Gates, a group of Microsoft executives commenced a campaign in the summer of 1995 to convince Netscape to halt its development of platform-level browsing technologies for Windows 95. in the case of paragraphs 79 through 132 it seems to provide no less than 3 different timelines, well beyond just MS and NSCP (a quick review shows Intel, IBM, Real Networks, and Apple..). i'm sure someone, somewhere, has graphed this out in to an "easily referenced" graphical timeline. for my purposes, this document will do. sadly, this is not what i wanted to find.. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/specials/microsofttrial/timeline/ -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message