Re: 2005 -- We ust take on Windows

From: nunya (business_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:06:39 -0800

Conor wrote:
> In article <pan.2005.01.03.10.38.44.953122@tiscali.co.uk>, kier says...
>
>
>>Don't be more stupid than you need to be. In most cases, changing the
>>browser to report itself as IE will cure than little problem. And if Linux
>>browsers are so lame, why are millions of Windows users moving to Firefox?
>
>
> Because Firefox isn't a Linux browser. Firefox is a cross platform
> browser. It could actually be argued that as Firefox is a development
> of Mozilla, that it is actually a windows browser seeing as Netscape
> Navigator/Moz was on the Windows 3.x platform LONG before Linus even
> considered Linux.
>
>
Reality:
Linux is circa 1991 ............. Netscape is 1994, and the Mozilla
project did not even start until 1998. So, "Linus even considered Linux"
LONG before "Netscape Navigator/Moz" even EXISTED.

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