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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (23523)	11/10/1999 12:21:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Way to go! While I am currently too busy to help with their project other than to advocate it occasionally, I will make sure that all of my web-pages will be Mozilla-compatible. And I'll put one of those little 'best when viewed with Mozilla' buttons on my screens as well, when they get around to making them. I read a Fascinating article on Microsoft/Jackson and Windows 2000. The kicker is that if Microsoft doesn't hurry up and settle, Jackson might force them to delay the rollout of Windows 2000. Considering what BillG probably packed into that 30 million line tarball, it's almost a certainty to occur. You think that might wake up Wall Street?

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (23523)	11/10/1999 12:30:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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. ...

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (23523)	11/10/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Finding Fault With Microsoft nytimes.com Harvey, this is an article on Jackson from the usual source, with a lot of background. But lawyers say he has administered the Microsoft trial brilliantly. It is by far the most prominent, and probably the most important trial of his career. And he has gotten through it winning plaudits from both sides for the innovative procedures that have allowed testimony to be completed in less than a year, when most major antitrust trials have typically run on for nearly a decade. Further, as the trial proceeded, his knowledge of the computer industry grew; he asked more and more technical questions that demonstrated an ever firmer grasp. Jackson has managed to move things astonishingly quickly, for this type of thing. I sort of wish they'd given a source for the "both sides" part, though, even before the finding there was plenty of leakage from the PR minions about what a "third rate judge" Jackson was. I think the speed of technology thing is oft overstated, Win9X is still recognizably Win95, no clear successor or alternative in sight, while Win2K is still NT, as near as I can see. I do worry that this facts versus law thing may not be as bulletproof as it's taken for, though. But DoJ has a hole card there, vis a vis the DC Appeals Court. On that other communicator angle: Along the way, he became politically active in Montgomery County, an area so heavily Democratic that Republicans like Jackson were ciphers. But the flip side was that it was easy for Republicans to stand out and be noticed, as Jackson was. He came to the attention of the Committee to Re-elect President Nixon, which he served as a lawyer in 1972 -- and avoided any taint from Watergate. In 1980, his name was mentioned for a possible appointment to the District of Columbia Superior Court or the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. But he was not chosen, and some lawyers at the time said he was not selected because of his membership in the Chevy Chase Country Club, which accepted no black members. Whether or not that was the reason, his membership was probably viewed as impolitic for a judge presiding over trials of District residents, most of whom were black. But that rejection turned out to be a blessing. The Reagan White House clearly did not care about the club membership. And two years later, in 1982, President Reagan appointed him to a better position, on the United States District Court. Like every judge in that courthouse, he has presided over his share of interesting and important cases, including the 1988 trial of Michael K. Deaver, the former top Reagan aide who was convicted of lying under oath during an investigation of whether he had improperly lobbied former White House associates. Anyway, if we're unlucky, somebody will turn up here to explain how Jackson's apparent Republican affiliations are just a ruse, he's obviously a commie at heart. Cheers, Dan.