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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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