Posted on 12/18/2004 6:19:26 AM PST by mathprof
NS 7.2 is stable, featureful, and quick. I like it.
Damn, do I feel stupid!!
What's to be better? I am not looking for a lot of features I guess... a browser to me is just a box that web pages come in.
Rigth you are... Just like the Corvette is a rip off of the Model T.
this is starting to sound like a slashdot thread
Actually, I think Windows was ripped off from Xerox. I believe Xerox had a graphical interface, network, and mouse before anyone else even dreamed of these. Xerox believed these things were a novelty. Microsoft and Apple realized the value.
I sure am a Firefox fan. Had used Mozilla for a couple of year. Firefox is a little better. IE sure likes spyware.
How do you delete IE.
I'd like to know.
They Did....
"Microsoft Windows WAS the subject of an Apple lawsuit that dragged on for years and years. Some elements of the lawsuit were thrown out. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, Apple and Microsoft reached an undisclosed licensing agreement/settlement on remaining elements of the lawsuit that publicly involved a $150 million investment by Microsoft in Apple."
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1092128190206490.xml
Interesting how a favorable editorial review coincides with a two-page ad in the same publication.
I think Windows itself was ripped off from somewhere. Internet Explorer was purchased, and they renamed it. They also discourage growth in new innovations. When a company announces they are going to develop a type of software, Microsoft soon after, announces they are going to work on the same thing. Immediately the smaller company stops development because they can't compete with MS, then MS simply sits on the project.
Window was ripped off from Apple. Dos was ripped off from Seattle Computers in the 80's and Internet Explorer was ripped off from Netscape. Bill Gates said himself in the book he wrote, "The Road Ahead" the internet is insignificant. He is a farce, the only thing Bill Gates is good at is contracts in his favor and stealing software. We had a computer business in Seattle 1983-1994 and I know many programmers that threw in the towel on writing software. They figured what's the point, Bill Gates will just steal it.
There is an FR RSS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse.rss
MS can't buy it. It's open source. They can use it if they give proper attributes (kinda like the "Based on NCSA Mosaic" in the help box of IE).
The problem is that MS is already knee deep in Mosaic not to mention the fact that the whole reason for Firefox's existence is because of IE. MS tried to buy Netscape way back when Netscape was the only commercial browser. When they couldn't buy it they tried to destroy by giving away Mosiac (renamed IE and tweeked a little). Netscape's response was to release their source code to encourage competition. You'd be surprised at how many browsers have been created with mozilla source code.
I doubt MS will ever touch Mozilla if for no other reason than of pride.
Firefox is an IE killer unless they do something about it.
Try on Firefox menubar
Bookmarks >> Manage Bookmarks >> View >> A-Z Sort
Maybe Jobs and Wozniak were too high on LSD to realize they'd been ripped off? (Or was it only Jobs who 'indulged')
Thanks!!
I just got done putting in adblock and tweak network settings extensions today. FF gets better the more I use it.
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