[svlug] Netscape & Sun

[Don Marti]

On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 12:44:29AM -0800, Ben Manes wrote:

> just been thinking about this as getting some time to read the reports. 
> One question keeps going through my head. If Sun buys Netscape's server 
> market, which is only logical, then what happens to Netscape's commitment 
> to Linux?

The merged company will have to keep mozilla.org going or someone will
grab the source and start their own Open Source development project.
I'm not at all worried on the client side.

As far as the web portal business and the web server software business
go, Mark Twain said it best.  His rules of literary art include this:

> 10. They require that the author shall make the reader feel a deep
> interest in the personages of his tale and in their fate; and that
> he shall make the reader love the good people in the tale and hate
> the bad ones. But the reader of the "Deerslayer" tale dislikes the
> good people in it, is indifferent to the others, and wishes they
> would all get drowned together.

(from "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" at
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Indians/offense.html)

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