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Re: IE is dead
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a. Frodo wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Eli Marmor wrote:
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> >> 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
The best non-english software has always originated in non-english
speaking countries ;) Do not expect too much from either competitor. They
are too busy fighting each other to pay attention to small details, and
small countries. Such as Israel for example. Non-english software gets
really good when the author immigrates to the US and stops being paid with
little pieces of colored paper (many of which their issuers want back
badly, everywhere), and starts being paid *money* for his work.
>
> 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.
^^^^^^^
I strongly suspect that there will be strings attached, in the direction
of 'not using the name of Netscape to promote derivative work' etc.
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)
Never. The poor guys probably had one hell of a time porting it from UNIX
to L95 in the first place. I believe that they have learned a few lessons
and won't make any more mistakes. Noone does development at a non-portable
level anymore. There is a very high level description of the GUI and
modules in relatively portable libraries. There are 3rd party tools that
assemble the contraption for various platforms. If any, the Linux port is
probably the hardest to maintain because there are no automatic commercial
tools for that under Linux. (no, I do not mean KDE or RCS, or makefiles).
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