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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (23523)	11/10/1999 12:30:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) of 24154

Everyone interested in IE vs Navigator should read this article: linuxtoday.com Some excerpts: Dave Whitinger -- The Battle That Could Lose Us The War ... [In the near future,] Microsoft owns 99% of the web browser market share, and they control the HTTP protocol. They start adding a huge variety of features to their "Internet Information Server", their competitor to Apache, to offer advanced features to Internet Explorer clients. At this point, sites being served by Apache become useless. Then Linux becomes obsolete as a web serverplatform. Then Microsoft wins the war, and we're right back to square one, and proprietary technology wins again. ... Attention: This is the battle that could cost us the war. If we come together and push all of our might toward a Free Web Browser for Linux, we have a good chance of winning this battle. If we fail, we will lose the war. This is the issue that Microsoft wants us to overlook. ...

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