[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 18-01-2010 12:39, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article<paul.nospam-8C9421.17313618012010 at pbook.sture.ch>,
> 	Paul Sture<paul.nospam at sture.ch>  writes:
>> In article<00A97BA5.6622A9D4 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
>>   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>
>>> In article<7rj6oqFut2U2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill
>>> Gunshannon) writes:
>>>> In article<0101e235$0$27816$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
>>>> 	JF Mezei<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca>  writes:
>>>>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The companies that are pushing the web envelope are doing
>>>>>> pretty good business wise.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Microsoft did not push the web envelope. It purposefully made its
>>>>> products so that those not using IE would be "punished "and unable to
>>>>> access web sites.
>>>>
>>>> Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
>>>> stupidity.  I have seen web pages that used these same concepts to
>>>> create web pages that not only can not be viewed with IE but go so
>>>> far as to display a page telling the viewer that they can not use
>>>> IE to view the page.  Most swords cut both ways.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Google didn't set out to prevent certain users from using its sites, it
>>>>> set out to add functionality (such as AJAX for the maps).
>>>>
>>>> As I said, I have yet to understand what Googles business is other than
>>>> selling snake oil.
>>>
>>> It's a decent business model; especially, since they can market to lots of
>>> squeaky snakes.
>>
>> Hehe. If Unix is snake oil, there's a large market out there :-)
>
> Who said Unix was snake oil?  I said Google was selling snake oil and
> they are hardly a Unix shop.

Depends on whether you consider Linux to be a Unix.

If not then true.

>> (A decade or more ago I couldn't imagine I'd ever say that)
>
> The "Unix is snake oil" claim ranks right up there with the Byte
> Magazine "Unix is Dead" headline.

But again assuming that Linux is not Unix then the Unix market
the last 5 years have been developing rather similar to the
VMS market: down.

Arne