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- 960722_oreilly_nt_limits.article
- EFF board member Tim O'Reilly's
article, "NT Workstation 4.0 Threatens Web Development", from _WEBster_,
July 22, 1996. O'Reilly lambasts Microsoft for crippling Windows NT
Workstation 4.0. Excerpts: "If you want to run *any* Web server --
O'Reilly's, Microsoft's, or others' -- on NT, you'll have to buy
NT Server for $999. The implications of Microsoft's actions are serious
for the Web community...this effectively eliminates NT Workstation as an
option for Internet or Intranet Web server usage...this development will
choke off one of the most important new directions for the Web: its
return to its roots as a groupware information sharing system for the
desktop...users who have never before put up a web site will be extremely
unlikely to do so...This move by Microsoft will hurt the efforts of Web
developers, Intranet developers, and Internet service providers..."
- 960801_oreilly_nt_limits.article
- EFF board member Tim O'Reilly's
article on Miscrosoft's attempt to limit Windows NT Workstation 4.0
users' Internet connections. Microsoft's position is that they are simply
leveraging their market for web servers, and that as NTW 4.0 is their
intellectual property they can license it as they wish. O'Reilly points
out that Microsoft has no proprietary interest of any kind in Internet
protocols, nor in what people do with the software they buy, and
warns that MS's increasingly dominant position, coupled with limits on
on what customers may do with MS products, spells limits for the entire
Internet.
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