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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:50:39 -0800, in comp.infosystems.www.misc
Michael Toy <mtoy@netscape.com> wrote:
>Greg Fenton wrote:
>> For those who haven't heard:
>>
>> http://www.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease558.html?cp=nws01flh1
>>
>> Now, how does Microsoft come back against this?
>
>This is an announcement of intention. We are working hard
>to figure out not only how we make the source available, but to also
>really get out of the way of a net-community based effort to make
>great client-side software.
>
>It make take a month or two for us to get a reasonable source distribution
>and to figure out how we change our development plans based on this.
>
>The major problem is that right now we are about half way through the 5.0
>effort, which is a major effort to introduce stability and increase
>performance, and decrease memory use of the 4.* product. We could probably
>ship the 4.* source sooner than the 5.* source, but it isn't clear that is
>the right thing.
>
>Be patient, we are serious, and are seriously trying to do the right thing,
>not just generate interesting press releases.
>
>-Michael
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