Most standards compliant browser? (was RE: [thelist] AOL wants to buy RH Linux??)
Liorean
Liorean at user.bip.net
Sun Jan 20 15:52:28 CST 2002
At 10:13 2002-01-20 -0800, joel wrote:
>|> I'm sure that you know Netscape, a division of AOL, produces
>|> the most standards compliant browser available.
>That's an interesting aspect of this whole thing that I hadn't thought
>of.
>
>Question: does this statement apply to the Linux version specifically?
>That would be a pretty meaningful bit of info.
No, it applies to Mozilla/Netscape6 in general, since the browser is pretty
much the same over the platforms.
As for the underlying discussion:
What I can't understand with you here is that *most of* you think AOL would
necessarily make bad use of Red Hat if they bought it. They might have lots
of proprietary things they make, but when they acquired Mirabilis they
didn't exactly destroy the company or it's products. Neither did they kill
Netscape, even if they reorganized things a bit.
I don't think AOL would use Red Hat for much else than getting a foot into
the Linux user base. They would probably let the company run much like it
has past times, maybe with some additional AOL software bundled with the OS.
They could, on the other hand, be a good source for getting more money into
the Linux development, as well as try to steer the Linux development toward
userfriendliness.
Now, that's just speculations IF they were to acquire Red Hat. That's far
from sure, and I've yet to see any indication towards that from AOL or Red Hat.
// Liorean
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