Re: Browsers - Was... Javascript usage in site

>
> Nope. They lost for the simplest of reasons - greed and laziness.
> 1. OEM's were both (greedy and lazy) in that they didn;t bother to install
> another browser in machines they built if one was included in the
operating
> system install (IE).
> 2. ALSO M$ had more than a few illegal contracts with OEM's NOT to install
> competing browsers (yes - ILLEGAL - ask the anti-trust findings. The
original
> penalty may have been dropped, but the findings of illegal monopolistic
> behaviour still stand).
> 3. User-land these days is by and large a) not capable and/or b) not
> interested in installing software. Laziness. Lowest common denominator. A
> cultural thing ...
>

This nonsense is nothing but a pile of nannie berries.  A little education
wouldn't hurt.

You might want to read this excellent article:
http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=64&sortorder=authorlast

Or some of these articles:
http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?title=Mises%2Eorg+on+Microsoft+&month=1
4

And if you are really interested in what really happened.
Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"

"Antitrust regulation is one of the hardest areas of economics for people to
understand. It is promoted under the guise of protecting competition and
insuring fairness. But strip away the rhetoric and you are left with a
bureaucratic boondoggle that resembles everything else the government does:
the looting of private property at the behest of special interests to
enhance the power of the state. "
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.


Karin

HWG hwg-techniques mailing list archives, maintained by Webmasters @ IWA