RE: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro
Heh, that's funny. Thanks for pointing it out, I would never have imagined that. Un saludo, Alex. -Mensaje original- De: Les Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: martes 18 de junio de 2002 15:37 Para: 'Jakarta General List' Asunto: RE: Interesting quote Erm, IE

Re: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Santiago Gala
Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro wrote: Heh, that's funny. Thanks for pointing it out, I would never have imagined that. It has been there since the very beginning. I remember seeing it back in Netscape 2/3 times, when Explorer was barely used at all (95/96, I can't remember). (...) Erm,

Re: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 6/24/02 11:29 AM, Santiago Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro wrote: Heh, that's funny. Thanks for pointing it out, I would never have imagined that. It has been there since the very beginning. I remember seeing it back in Netscape 2/3 times, when Explorer

Re: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
I guess they dropped the parts from Spyglass - wasn't the first IE just a rebranded spyglass browser? Yes. IIRC, The IE that came with windows originally (That didn't do jack) was just Mosaic, which at the time had been recently acquired from NCSA, where Anderssen used to work. So

RE: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Les Hughes
Struth! It gets better! What next? IIS - Help - About (c) 1998 ASF That'd be the day Yes. IIRC, The IE that came with windows originally (That didn't do jack) was just Mosaic, which at the time had been recently acquired from NCSA, where Anderssen used to work. So essentially,

RE: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Leo Simons
just like the BSD tcp/ip code in windows. MS is very good at taking the best bits of free software and running away with it. They should do it more often. Struth! It gets better! What next? IIS - Help - About (c) 1998 ASF That'd be the day yeah. It'd solve a lot of security problems

RE: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
- Leo, who's thinking how nice it'd be to be able to plug in mod_webapp into that IIS HA! -Andy, who will laugh when Leo gets Code Red III or IV or whatever. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --

RE: Interesting quote....

2002-06-24 Thread Doug Bateman
just like the BSD tcp/ip code in windows. MS is very good at taking the best bits of free software and running away with it. They should do it more often. One of my CS professors (who's now a full professor at Carnegie Mellon) used to always say One good thief is worth 10 good engineers. --

Re: Interesting quote....

2002-06-18 Thread Sam Ruby
Doug Bateman wrote: Sorry, I just don't measure success in terms of defeating Microsoft. And I'd wager Gandi's goal wasn't to defeat Britian, but to free India. Hopefully, Apache feels the same way. Last I checked, beating Microsoft was never mentioned in the Apache mission statement. +1

Re: Interesting quote....

2002-06-18 Thread Martin van den Bemt
Also +1 on this one. Competing isn't good, since your strategy is based on what another company does, and then you are doomed. Just define your own goals, and if that ends up in being competetion for Microsoft, it is not even your problem, but you just made something that is really good! Mvgr,

RE: Interesting quote....

2002-06-18 Thread Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro
: Jakarta General List Asunto: Re: Interesting quote Also +1 on this one. Competing isn't good, since your strategy is based on what another company does, and then you are doomed. Just define your own goals, and if that ends up in being competetion for Microsoft, it is not even your

RE: Interesting quote....

2002-06-18 Thread Danny Angus
To free India, MANY other people, the real heros of India, not Gandi, fought and lost their lives. Gandi is just the one that the British want us the remember. Because Gandi refused to fight, India now has its greatest enemy right on its border (Pakistan). Had Gandi not been there, India

RE: Interesting quote....

2002-06-18 Thread Les Hughes
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 June 2002 11:03 To: 'Jakarta General List' Subject: RE: Interesting quote +1 from a non-committer ;) Remember that Netscape originally competed against NCSA Mosaic, it was only later that Microsoft entered the game. Un saludo, Alex

Re: Interesting quote....

2002-06-18 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Sam Ruby wrote: Doug Bateman wrote: Sorry, I just don't measure success in terms of defeating Microsoft. And I'd wager Gandi's goal wasn't to defeat Britian, but to free India. Hopefully, Apache feels the same way. Last I checked, beating Microsoft was never mentioned in the Apache

Re: Interesting quote....

2002-06-16 Thread Shantul Nigam
I guess, for Marc, Failure IS an option For most of us, it is not. lloyd wrote: Jon Scott Stevens wrote: My attitude is, everybody should try competing with Microsoft once in their life. Once. -- Marc Andreessen ...and then, apparently, to get so cozy with them that you're

Re: Interesting quote....

2002-06-15 Thread lloyd
Jon Scott Stevens wrote: My attitude is, everybody should try competing with Microsoft once in their life. Once. -- Marc Andreessen ...and then, apparently, to get so cozy with them that you're unwilling to even comment on their antitrust situation. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: