RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

> Java was little more than a toy in 1995, and Netscape did not support =
it
> until Navigator 2.0 was released in March, 1996.  There was no way
> Microsoft could consider "the Netscape / Java combination" a threat in
> May 1995, because it simply did not exist.
>=20
> DES
> --=20
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - [e-mail]

I'm sorry, but this is contradicted by the historical record. Further, =
your argument is not logical. Bill Gates could certainly anticipate =
threats even when they did not yet exist. Both Java and Netscape existed =
at the time, the Internet was growing at the time, and both technologies =
(especially together) had the clear implication that it didn't matter =
what OS you were running.

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http://www.businessweek.com/1996/29/b34842.htm

Despite MSN, by May, 1995, Gates was sounding the Internet alarm. He =
issued ``The Internet Tidal Wave,'' a memo that hit on the themes that =
had been reverberating throughout Silicon Valley. He declared that the =
Net was the ``most important single development'' since the IBM PC. ``I =
have gone through several stages of increasing my views of its =
importance. Now, I assign the Internet the highest level,'' he wrote.

On May 27, Slivka issued his own alarm, titled ``The Web Is the Next =
Platform.'' He warned that the Web had the potential to supersede =
Windows. Says Slivka: ``I don't know if I actually believed that would =
happen. But I wanted to make a point.''

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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,2069360,00.htm

One example: the threat to Microsoft's operating system posed by joining =
browser and Java technologies. According to Jackson's ruling, Microsoft =
Chairman and CEO Bill Gates on May 26, 1995 wrote in an e-mail that "the =
Netscape/Java combination threatens to "commoditise' the operating =
system."

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http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f2600/vii-d.pdf
See section 398.

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DS


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