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To: Xenogenetic who wrote (5842)	3/1/1999 1:11:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

The best aspect of the NSCP purchase, the availability of a Linux skunkworks project that NSCP was conducting, was lost in the noise over Netcenter. I'm not a believer in the porthole theory. Big ships can and do have many portholes. I used to start open to Excite, but Excite's subscription interference convinced me to change to open to about.blank. I used to have ICQ chat, but I realized the medium was for morons, and I realized it was only a fad. Linux, in contrast to Java, is no fad. AOL will develop a Navigator in Linux because it is stable, fast, and cheap, without the various political problems of Windows. So will everyone. "write apps to the browser", what does that mean? We seem to have major misunderstandings caused by the use of prepositions. Is it "to", "for", "under", or "on"? This reminds me of the ambiguous statements, "x supports y" and "y is supported by x" where x and y are software. The two statements are not equivalent! What apps run to, for, under, on, your browser? Necessarily none. The browser is not an OS, it's an app. When you run an add-on or plug-in in a browser, you are relegating the console to the plug-in. When the plug-in completes its WEP, it releases its thread so that the OS can restart the browser's app process. The subordination is an illusion, but the browser's previous state is retained so it looks like the browser runs the plug-in. The OS runs the plug-in, since the browser is dead until the OS revives it. The NSCP division will be happy to sell ATHM customers Linux Navigator. If ATHM customers who use IE want to switch because they are tired of crashes, AOL will realize a fillip up in revenues. This is consequential for MSFT, but not for ATHM. If MSFT responds to the Linux threat and develops a better OS or builds an equally good OS with extensive and nicely integrated MSFT written application support(proper use of "support"), then MSFT can recapture the lead. In any event there is no consequence to ATHM.