[OT] RE: Microsoft removes Netscape support from IE; plug-in needsre-writing.

Stephen Pair spair at advantive.com
Thu Jul 26 21:32:55 UTC 2001


I don't want to whip Mac fans into a flurry, but keep in mind that MS
owns about 17% (or around that) of Apple.  Basically, MS is keeping
Apple at arms length (IMO).

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Jeff Szuhay
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:40 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: RE: [OT] RE: Microsoft removes Netscape support from 
> IE; plug-in needsre-writing.
> 
> 
> In your hypothetical progression of events, you completely 
> missed/left out Mac OS X. This, along with Unix, has M$ a bit 
> paranoid (moreso than ever).
> 
> >- Developers revert to development using C/C++ (some are
> >smart and choose Squeak) and seek cross platform solutions
> 
> For what? What's the progress on "double clickable apps"
> with Squeak?
> 
> Who is shipping apps based on Squeak? (and making any money from it?)
> 
> Windows will have a lot of momentum simply because everybody
> is making so much money off the dupes who bought into the 
> whole slop. For any really successful software, somebody's
> got to be able to make a living from it.
> 
> Jeff Sz.
> 
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