Re: Boycott Microsoft

[jason@jhste1.dyn.ml.org (Jason S.)]

Scott Willsey posted the following to comp.sys.mac.advocacy:

>>However there are internet sites that you can't connect to unless you
>>are using MS's browser and that is flat out wrong. If you disagree with
>>that statement you are the classic MS Apologist. Period!!

>And in the past people complained the same way about proprietary NETSCAPE
>tags, but that didn't stop the holy, pure, righteous, friend-of-all
>Netscape, which certainly does not exist to make money, but rather to make
>the planet a warm and fuzzy place, from doing whatever they felt like.

>Did you complain the same way about them at the time?

>If not, you are a hypocrite.

Netscape is a cross-platform solution.  Microsoft isn't.  Indeed,
Netscape even went so far as to release the source to the browser
with the proprietary tags.  Still waiting for Microsoft to release
the source to ActiveX.

-- 
If FreeBSD actually did that, I would concede that FreeBSD was any more
"correct" than Linux is, but not even the FreeBSD people can justify
that kind of performance loss.

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