[thelist] AOL wants to buy RH Linux??

[Jon Hall]

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> > From: Denis, David
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> > I'm sure that you know Netscape, a division of AOL,
> > produces the most standards compliant browser available.
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> yes, i know they own netscape.  whether or not it's the most standards
> compliant browser is a completely different story.  netscape is an odd
beast
> though as it was well in production before aol purchased it.  try taking a
> product they built from the ground up themselves and see how standards
> compliant it is.  one *good* example is how they choose to ignore email
> protocols with their built-in email client.

Are you saying Mozilla isn't the most standards compliant browser available?
I don't care to argue the point, though I think you are wrong on this point.
Mozilla may not be superior to IE when it comes to overall "dhtml" stuff,
but it's not 1.0 yet. DHTML and standards are two very different things.

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> > And they'd love to purchase a major cable provider as
> > well.
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> oh yeah?  says who?

The BBC...old but it proves the point.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/the_company_file/newsid_341000/341
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jon