"David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Part of their behavior really escape me. The whole thing about >> browser wars confuses me. Web browsers represent a zero billion >> dollar a year market. Why would you risk anything to own it? > > It really isn't that hard to understand that web-based > applications that > work in any browser on any OS threaten to make it irrelevent what OS > you're running.
And it's even easier to understand that your statement is nonsense. It doesn't matter which Linux distribution you pick, all use the Linux kernel. On all I can run OpenOffice, and get the same results. Yet people seem to prefer one distribution over one other. > MS has a strong interest in making sure it's important > to be running on one of their OSes. Maybe *they* do have a point :-). -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ I ploink googlegroups.com :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list