Rather interesting reading - at least to the MS bashers among us. enjoy - ---s Elbow Grease - the Webmonkey newsletter http://www.webmonkey.com/ Thursday, 18 November 1999 The case against Microsoft has focused on how the company used its dominant operating system to get a choke hold on the Web browser market. But Tim O'Reilly - that rascal! - has another tale to tell. This one about how the monopoly was also attempting to control the Web server realm. And it probably would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those pesky kids at Apache. In this Salon article, O'Reilly (yeah, THAT O'Reilly, publisher of the tech books with the random animals on the covers) explains how close we came to a Microsoft-dominated Web and why that wouldn't have been particularly great: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/11/16/microsoft_servers/ Suresh Ramasubramanian 106D, Aditya Enclave, Ameerpet, Hyderabad 500038, India. Phone: +(91-40)3736553/3745398 | eFax: +(1-603)590-5437 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kcircle.com | http://www.angen.net/~pegasus/ Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. I grant that the wheel was also a fine invention, but a wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.
