On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 07:55, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:09:59AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> > Microsoft is apparently trying to bury the hatchet with AOL, to the tune
> > of $750M. One part of the settlement is that MS is supposedly going to
> > "bless" Netscape on its Windows platform.
>
> Apologies here. I misread the story. MS is _not_ "blessing" Netscape.
> Instead, AOL is being allowed to continue licensing IE.
Ah. It's a "legal" way for MS to bribe AOL into continuing to use IE as
the AOL browser instead of converting their client to use the Gecko
engine from the Mozilla project as they have been talking about for the
last several months.
Kind of a funny way to resolve an anti-competition lawsuit for using
unfair business practices to see IE dominate the web browser industry...
God how I hate this industry.
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