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

To: Bearded One who wrote (23789)	1/13/2000 8:33:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

You can't be serious! Why do you think the COM+ architecture is so popular? Why do you think all of the IE specific extensions are so popular? The answer to all of these is that, increasingly, the defacto markets standard client was IE. These things do not run on Macs or Unix. If Navigator still had 90% market share, CORBA and EJB along with NSCP's proprietarty Javascript extensions and DHTML (suchas layers) would rule the day. Alas, that has not come to be. I can't believe you could possibly deny this.

To: Bearded One who wrote (23789)	1/18/2000 12:55:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

I finally finished "Code And Other Laws of Cyberspace" by Lawrence Lessig. Some immediate impressions: 1. The guy hates libertarians. 2. The guy fails to provide a precise definition of some very important terms, among them, "liberty," the thing I gather he wants to protect, and "we," as in "we" should do something regulating code and not leave its design to the evil "commerce," also undefined. 3. The guy shows remarkably little respect, for someone I thought was at least coming out of the classical liberal tradition, if not actually a part of it, for private property or the notion of separate private and public spheres. 4. This man is a legal positivist, through and through, and, from a Hayekian perspective, a "constructivist" to boot. Any thoughts on him or this, as Judge Jackson prepares to appoint him to "assist" the court in deciding Microsoft's fate?