On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:21:43AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Sebastiaan wrote:
>
> > Is M$ really thinking about this? That would really be the end of the
> > internet.
>
> I doubt it. There's no real thing that Microsoft can offer that would
> make end-users *want* to use their proprietary protocol. On the other
> hand, there are a lot of people that would really, really not want this to
> happen - like all those web and database servers running Unix. Plus,
> Cisco controls as much of the router market as Microsoft controls the
> desktop market. They aren't likely to just decide to start taking orders
> about how to do networking from Microsoft just because Microsoft wants
> them to.
there's no way for microso~1 to make me want to offer front page
extensions on my server, for example -- but if i was an isp and
80% of my clientele begged for it...
microso~1 has mass and they know how to sling it around. they
won't get us to want to change -- they'll get us to want to
communicate with people who did change unknowingly...
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