Re: Netscape, XyWrite, and the Media

["Russ W. Urquhart" urqurw@xxxxxxxx]

I, too was going to ignore this but....


Let me offer a ditto to David's comments, and also add, as i mentioned to my
reply to Leslie, i use products on the Unix side that offer many of the
features that i admire in xywrite. I use slrn for newgroup reading, Mutt for
email, and vim for general text editing within these applications. Each of
these applications is free, open source, offers more functionality than
their PC counterparts (whether M$ or Netscape), are character based (but not
exclusively), are customizable in just about every aspect, are small in code
size so they perform blazingly fast, work with everything i receive from
everyone else (i.e. word docs, etc.)

so i feel comfortable in not only saying the MS creates inferior products, i
can show people alternatives, get my job dones lots faster than before, and
support better designed tools!

fwiw,


Russ


On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 01:51:29PM -0800, David B. Kronenfeld wrote:
> 	I was going to ignore this one, but what the heck. I'm willing to use
> whatever works for me--and then is easy, cheap, ... --even if an evil
> empire invented it. But evil empires mostly don't invent very much, and
> often do a bad job of copy-catting. So, being too lazy/overworked to go
> for exotic stuff, I use Netscape over IE mostly--but use IE for the stuff
> that MS keeps N from working on. I used to use QEMM/desqView, but I'm too
> lazy/overworked to get into Linux, and so Windows 98 here we go !
> 	Nonetheless, MS does indulge in heavy handed, unethical business practices
> that suppress competition and innovation, and does mostly turn out
> bloatware that never quite works right, that insists on telling you what
> you want to do even when that's not what you want to do, and that is
> frustratingly "idiot proofed". For this reason I am supportive of any
> action that breaks MS's monopoly, that produces easy to use software that
> is fast, efficient, easy to configure, easy to troubleshoot--like the old
> desqview and XyWrite--but that also painlessly integrates with newer tools
> I use.
> 		Cheers
>
>
> At 08:46 PM 2/13/00 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >Reply to note from Harry Binswanger  Sun, 13 Feb
> >2000 13:58:07 -0500 (EST)
> >
> >-> I use Netscape because I began with it in '95. But I wouldn't
> >-> buy it again after their attempt to throttle MS by legal means
> >-> (rather than trying to beat them on the free market).
> >
> >You would have preferred that Netscape throttle Microsoft by illegal
> >means? Adopt the same cutthroat, anti-competitive "free market"
> >tactics that MS used to ram its "innovations" down our throats and
> >claim victory on that account? Doesn't everyone else still lose?
> >
> >--------------
> >Carl Distefano
> >CLDistefano@xxxxxxxx
> >http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/
> >
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