Subject: Re: vent (Was: Hungarian coding (was: will Java ...)) From: Erik Naggum <clerik@naggum.no> Date: 1997/09/20 Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3083771156039913@naggum.no> * Thant Tessman | I was confused about why Microsoft would be willing to buy a piece of | Apple merely to make Explorer the default web browser on Apple's | machines. Why does Microsoft consider Netscape to be the enemy? Why | does Microsoft consider Java to be the enemy? it appears that Bill Gates spent that money on Apple out of fear of the Feds and their anti-trust investigations. the guy is a just a criminal with enough knowledge and understanding of the wording of the law to manage to escape its intent -- to protect the public from predators like himself. #\Erik -- see http://www.naggum.no/emacs/ for Emacs-20-related material.