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To: Dermot Burke who wrote (18464)	4/14/1998 4:49:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Dermot, I'm certainly happy to see Netscape in the "open source" club, philosophically at least. Business wise, it's a risk, but even there I'd call it a good move. It might be hard to make money on it, but with the price Microsoft set for competing, they weren't going to be making money on it anyway. The original NCSA Mosaic which turned the internet into the www we know and love was free source, so it's appropriate that the browser go back in that direction. Then there's Microsoft. I'm sure they'll continue to do their best with "web standards" like Chrome (at least they didn't call it an "open standard", which competitor VRML was) and the war on Java. I find the almost anti-hype rollout of Win98 interesting. You still need Windows to run Windows software, and there's a lot of the latter. What I would find interesting is if Microsoft published the bottom of the Win32 API, i.e. what the "dll hell" runtime system that runs on both Win95/98 and NT calls on the lower end. Then, in principle, you could buy the runtime system from Microsoft and get a real OS elsewhere. Roll your own bloated middleware OS! Needless to say, I'm not holding my breath on that one. Cheers, Dan.