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Author: darwinistdarwinist Date: Jun 3, 2008 22:11
It was suspected more than a decade ago, and is now pretty clear: The
web-browser is becoming the dominant application-platform. You can run
email, stock and banking software, discussion-boards, videos, games
and other applications on your web-browser, and not care whether you
have Windows, MacOs or Linux under the hood.
But since long before the web-browser and still today, the most
popular application-platforms are made and owned by Microsoft. First
DOS, then Windows, now Internet-Explorer.
Firefox is the only thing that is seriously challenging Microsoft's
long-lasting dominance in this application-platform market.
Furthermore, it is a free, open and collaborative alternative to
microsoft's monopolistic, proprietary, often expensive system(s).
As the web-browser becomes our most common interface to software, it
becomes easier to replace your proprietary operating system with a
free alternative, and it becomes more important for programmers to
know web-based languages, of which most of the popular ones are free
(e.g. html, php, javascript).
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Author: ZerkonXZerkonX Date: Jun 4, 2008 03:33
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:11:54 -0700, darwinist wrote:
> But since long before the web-browser and still today, the most popular
> application-platforms are made and owned by Microsoft. First DOS, then
> Windows, now Internet-Explorer.
MS-DOS, right? All OS's have a dos system.
> Firefox is the only thing that is seriously challenging Microsoft's
> long-lasting dominance in this application-platform market. Furthermore,
> it is a free, open and collaborative alternative to microsoft's
> monopolistic, proprietary, often expensive system(s).
Yes and you might mention that MS came late to the internet and the whole
browser world and it's 'dominance' was never due to quality.
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Author: lynxlynx Date: Jun 4, 2008 06:31
ZerkonX wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:11:54 -0700, darwinist wrote:
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>> But since long before the web-browser and still today, the most popular
>> application-platforms are made and owned by Microsoft. First DOS, then
>> Windows, now Internet-Explorer.
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> MS-DOS, right? All OS's have a dos system.
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There were several versions of DOS; DR-DOS, PC-DOS, etc., all squashed
by M$.
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Author: lynxlynx Date: Jun 4, 2008 06:32
darwinist wrote:
> It was suspected more than a decade ago, and is now pretty clear: The
> web-browser is becoming the dominant application-platform. You can run
> email, stock and banking software, discussion-boards,...
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Author: Citizen JimseracCitizen Jimserac Date: Jun 4, 2008 06:45
On Jun 4, 9:31 am, lynx nothere.com> wrote:> ZerkonX wrote:
>> On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:11:54 -0700, darwinist wrote:
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>>> But since long before the web-browser and still today, the most popular
>>> application-platforms are made and owned by Microsoft. First DOS, then
>>> Windows, now Internet-Explorer.
>
>> MS-DOS, right? All OS's have a dos system.
>
> There were several versions of DOS; DR-DOS, PC-DOS, etc., all squashed
> by M$.
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>>> Firefox is the only thing that is seriously challenging Microsoft's
>>> long-lasting dominance in this application-platform market. Furthermore,
>>> it is a free, open and collaborative alternative to microsoft's
>>> monopolistic, proprietary, often expensive system(s).
> ...
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Author: Citizen JimseracCitizen Jimserac Date: Jun 4, 2008 06:46
On Jun 4, 1:11 am, darwinist gmail.com> wrote:> It was suspected more than a decade ago, and is now pretty clear: The
> web-browser is becoming the dominant application-platform. You can run
> email, stock and banking software, discussion-boards, videos, games
> and other applications on your web-browser, and not care whether you
> have Windows, MacOs or Linux under the hood.
>
> But since long before the web-browser and still today, the most
> popular application-platforms are made and owned by Microsoft. First
> DOS, then Windows, now Internet-Explorer.
>
> Firefox is the only thing that is seriously challenging Microsoft's
> long-lasting dominance in this application-platform market.
> Furthermore, it is a free, open and collaborative alternative to
> microsoft's monopolistic, proprietary, often expensive system(s).
>
> As the web-browser becomes our most common interface to software, it
> becomes easier to replace your proprietary operating system with a
> free alternative, and it becomes more important for programmers to
> know web-based languages, of which most of the popular ones are free ...
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Author: AddinallAddinall Date: Jun 4, 2008 10:05
On Jun 4, 10:46 pm, Citizen Jimserac gmail.com> wrote:> On Jun 4, 1:11 am, darwinist gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> It was suspected more than a decade ago, and is now pretty clear: The
>> web-browser is becoming the dominant application-platform. You can run
>> email, stock and banking software, discussion-boards, videos, games
>> and other applications on your web-browser, and not care whether you
>> have Windows, MacOs or Linux under the hood.
>
>> But since long before the web-browser and still today, the most
>> popular application-platforms are made and owned by Microsoft. First
>> DOS, then Windows, now Internet-Explorer.
>
>> Firefox is the only thing that is seriously challenging Microsoft's
>> long-lasting dominance in this application-platform market.
>> Furthermore, it is a free, open and collaborative alternative to ...
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Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Jun 4, 2008 20:48
On Jun 3, 10:11 pm, darwinist gmail.com> wrote:> It was suspected more than a decade ago, and is now pretty clear: The
> web-browser is becoming the dominant application-platform. You can run
> email, stock and banking software, discussion-boards, videos, games
> and other applications on your web-browser, and not care whether you
> have Windows, MacOs or Linux under the hood.
>
> But since long before the web-browser and still today, the most
> popular application-platforms are made and owned by Microsoft. First
> DOS, then Windows, now Internet-Explorer.
>
> Firefox is the only thing that is seriously challenging Microsoft's
> long-lasting dominance in this application-platform market.
> Furthermore, it is a free, open and collaborative alternative to
> microsoft's monopolistic, proprietary, often expensive system(s).
>
> As the web-browser becomes our most common interface to software, it
> becomes easier to replace your proprietary operating system with a
> free alternative, and it becomes more important for programmers to
> know web-based languages, of which most of the popular ones are free ...
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Author: ayatollah obamaayatollah obama Date: Jun 4, 2008 20:55
On Jun 4, 10:48 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:> On Jun 3, 10:11 pm, darwinist gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> It was suspected more than a decade ago, and is now pretty clear: The
>> web-browser is becoming the dominant application-platform. You can run
>> email, stock and banking software, discussion-boards, videos, games
>> and other applications on your web-browser, and not care whether you
>> have Windows, MacOs or Linux under the hood.
>
>> But since long before the web-browser and still today, the most
>> popular application-platforms are made and owned by Microsoft. First
>> DOS, then Windows, now Internet-Explorer.
>
>> Firefox is the only thing that is seriously challenging Microsoft's
>> long-lasting dominance in this application-platform market.
>> Furthermore, it is a free, open and collaborative alternative to ...
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Author: darwinistdarwinist Date: Jun 4, 2008 21:49
On Jun 5, 1:48 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:> On Jun 3, 10:11 pm, darwinist gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> It was suspected more than a decade ago, and is now pretty clear: The
>> web-browser is becoming the dominant application-platform. You can run
>> email, stock and banking software, discussion-boards, videos, games
>> and other applications on your web-browser, and not care whether you
>> have Windows, MacOs or Linux under the hood.
>
>> But since long before the web-browser and still today, the most
>> popular application-platforms are made and owned by Microsoft. First
>> DOS, then Windows, now Internet-Explorer.
>
>> Firefox is the only thing that is seriously challenging Microsoft's
>> long-lasting dominance in this application-platform market.
>> Furthermore, it is a free, open and collaborative alternative to
>> microsoft's monopolistic, proprietary, often expensive system(s).
> ...
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