Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 20:20:07 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: allenc@verinet.com (Allen Campbell), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Naw, Netscape doesn't have a memory problem! Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000503201615.048acd80@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200005040115.SAA02317@usr01.primenet.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20000503120120.0410c100@localhost>
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At 07:15 PM 5/3/2000, Terry Lambert wrote: >There's no such thing as a "clean" install of Windows 98. > >I've become convinced that Windows 98 was intentionally >destabilized in order to promote sales of Windows 2000; you >are more likely to put up with the performance hit from the >98 to 2000 switch if it makes your system more stable. But Windows 2000 is not the next step for consumers; only for businesses. Consumers get Windows 98 ME. >A large corporation who shall remain nameless and therefore >blameless has a policy of deploying only Windows 95 on new >systems, for stability reasons. If they're conquered all of the bugs they care about, why not? I understand that Yahoo stays several versions behind the curve on FreeBSD, too. >FWIW, I have seen Netscape crash a number of times. If you >run IE while running Netscape, you will almost inevitably >get a "this program has performed an illegal operation error", >wiithe the "Details>>" button showing that the error occured >"VCRTL42.DLL" (the Visual C++ run time library) or "KERNEL32.DLL" >(the Windows kernel). Most likely a reentrancy problem. > > Not in my experience. Netscape's best developers are gone, and AOL > > cares little about it since it's not a money maker. Frankly, I'm > > surprised that they haven't just killed it off as a sacrifice to > > the Great God Microsoft. Or maybe that's what they're doing -- > > in an unusually slow and painful manner. > >I doubt it. It's probably just programmer availability; working >for AOL is just not as sexy as working for Netscape was. Sexy? It's the ultimate turnoff. "Hey, come work for a company that exploits clueless newbies!" >A lot >of big companies are in the same boat, with money to burn for >people but no people lining up to take it. Maybe that's because they realize that they have a chance of making it big with a startup, but no chance of moving up past the entrenched management in an established company to a high-paying position. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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