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This is largely true, of course, but also a complete non sequitur? There have been free and donation based things for a long time. Shareware was very awesome,
by taeric 3y ago
This is largely true, of course, but also a complete non sequitur? There have been free and donation based things for a long time. Shareware was very awesome, to me.
But to pretend Microsoft was not engaging in questionable practices feels very bullshit heavy. And an equivalency game here is very discrediting to both arguments.
- WalterBright 3y agoWhat is "questionable" about it?
- taeric 3y agoQuestionable about their practices? I remember the effort it used to take to get netscape to be the browser your machine used. It was comically difficult to do, at times. So much so that I was never comfortable going for the paid Opera, as I just didn't think it would stick to my machine. It is frustrating, because I think it is largely fair to say that netscape was the worse option at the time. Navigator was largely trash. That said, jscript and activex controls were both obvious land grabs on the internet. I'm... not really sure how most any part of what all Microsoft did back then can be defended.
- WalterBright 3y ago> jscript and activex controls were both obvious land grabs on the internet Jscript was developed originally for Netscape in 1995 and was standardized in 1997. Not sure how that is a questionable land grab by Microsoft. P.S. I wrote a jscript interpreter back in 1999 or so. It was used as a drop in replacement for Microsoft's implementation. It did not require heroic efforts to make.
- taeric 3y agoI remember jscript being mainly a way for them to not have to use the name javascript. Which, fair that that entire history is nonsense. I have weaker memories of doing things that would work in jscript that would not work in javascript. But, I also consider that in my concession that navigator was not a good browser.