Author: Marc
Date: 06:01:50 08/15/01
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On August 13, 2001 at 23:59:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 13, 2001 at 12:38:22, pete stein wrote: > >>According to a recent press release at http://www.cnet.com : >> >>M$i 's plans for future versions of Windoze : >> >>Programmers and software producers will be required to buy a "Compatibility >>Licence" to release software that is compatible with the next Windows OS and in >>return they will get an official "Retrieving Licence" to justify their >>recovering of the extra expenditures from the end users. When buying a (e,g. >>Fritz) CD the end user will then be required to order (and pay) Microsoft's >>"Activation Licence" of that CD >>in order to run purchased software. >>The Double-Deck CD-rom will become the standard, Microsoft reports, because >>Windows will only run with the CD in the drive because of the copy protection. >>There are also plans to "manifest" IExplorer, it means to ban other web browsers >>and access to the net will only be possible through the Microsoft servers in >>order to trace "Unregistered licence-users" >> >>Boy, am I happy I migrated to Linux! >> >>Pete > > >Linux has its own share of problems. Many web sites are now only viewable with >Microsoft's IE. We tried to grab my son's grades last term, and since we use >netscape on our windows box and I use netscape on my linux box, we thought their >web site was down when we just got blank pages. On a whim, I had my wife try >IE and voila' we had a web site we could view. > >No IE for Linux of course, which means there are web sites I can't visit. Bad >news, but reality is often harsh. Netscape 4.x has problems with some sites because CSS isn't supported very well. This is much better in Netscape6. Some sites use javascript for browser/plugin detection and/or redirection. Netscape users sometimes disable javascript and this can cause problems if the site isn't built properly. Maybe netscape6 isn't the most comfortable browser at the moment, but it might be possible to view sites with it you can't see in 4.x. God forbid a future with just microsoft servers, horrible! PHP programmers won't be happy.
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