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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Bearded One who wrote (18873)5/3/1998 2:21:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
Bearded One:
I checked out your link on the netscape thread, and have some stupid questions. If you've already covered them, just point me to the links.

trying to duplicate a bug that occurred on some tester's machine out in Peoria can be very difficult.

When somebody from Peoria posts a bug fix, how do you know, without replicating the bug, exactly what bug is being fixed? How do you know if the bug exists and will be fixed on all machines, operating under all conditions? How do you know something quirky in Peoria is not what accounts for the bug, or that something quirky might not cause problems on that machine out there that you are not aware of?

I think Darwin can take care of this one-- those versions which cannot read the web properly will not propagate.

I think it depends -- who is to say that multiple versions might not even lead to a fracturing of the web, just as the competition between IE and Netscape has done?

What's to keep someone from pulling a Microsoft -- developing some proprietary rendering technology, then distributing a freeware browser based on netscape source code to read it?

After all, different species are best suited for different environments.

And, perhaps the dumbest question of all: How will Netscape make money doing this?
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