[thelist] Curl...

Jorah Lavin madstone at madstone.net
Fri Apr 27 13:03:47 CDT 2001


At 01:48 PM 04/27/01, you wrote:
>Looking at the site's description of curl, there
>doesn't seem to be anything compelling enough about it to think that the
>majority of web users will install it.

Not only that, but the download and install seemed to take forever.

Here is the quote that Joe pointed to.  Sounds horrible.

>According to Curl, every web developer on earth is going to stop writing 
>JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, Java, and Flash, and starting using their Surge 
>Lab (Windows-only) product instead.
>Oh, and every browser user will have to download their Surge plug-in (also 
>available for Windows only), otherwise, they won't be able to see your content.
>Commercial Web sites that use Curl content will have to pay (starting at 
>$1000/month, minimum), and users visiting sites that use Curl will have to 
>agree to allow Curl to know about all content executed by the plugin.
>If you want to know more about this, check out curlBreaker, the 
>independent magazine for Curl developers. And if you think that this is a 
>good idea, just imagine how popular Esperanto would be if you had to pay 
>every time you spoke it.
>posted by Dori Smith on 4/7/2001 02:48:06 PM





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