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Re: IE is dead



On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Eli Marmor wrote:

>>   From: "Itamar S.-T." <itamars@ibm.net>
>> Subject: IE is dead
>>
>> Netscape is going to release Communicator 5 under the GPL!
>
>and Netscape is going to be dead, too  :-(
Not yet. And if they will be clever, they won't... It's marketing that
rule the game. If they'll find good marketing strategy, they won't be
dead. Though, they didn't seem to excel in this recently...

BTW, as one of huge factors promoting Microsoft (and demoting Netscape, in
the fields where they compete) is localisation. Even the broken one in
you-know-95 and it's spawns wins lack and complete unability of such in
nuts-cape x.y for any x and y you choose. TBTF[2] raised the topic
recently also... And I personally know that there is need, and not a
small one, for non-english software (and money to pay it, opposed to what
Gil Rimon says in the discussion [1]).
You may also read the discussion in:
[1] http://www.tbtf.com/resource/moft-il-ru.html
[2] http://www.tbtf.com/archive/01-19-98.html#s03

Again, publishing netscape source means that any programmer, having a
couple of nights free time, can correct the stupid things Netscape
designers did and release the better version. If this projects gets real -
praises to Netscape (though my fear is that when I come to Netscape site, 
I'll read: source code is available for Windows version of Netscape
Jabberwocker 5.0, to be compiled with Visual C++ 5.0... sigh)
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