Re: [DotGNU]Bending the twig of .NET (large -- sorry)

[Matthew Copeland]

You know, if you made a plugin, and got it added to the official mozilla,
you could maybe get it out in the next version of Netscape.  Then, all you
have to worry about is making one for IE.  (sick and twisted, I know, but
they do control something like 80 - 90 % of the browser market share.)

Matthew M. Copeland


On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Norbert Bollow wrote:

> I agree 100% with what Ron Burk is saying here.  In fact I had
> something like this in mind when I wrote about the need for a
> "quick-and-dirty proof-of-concept implementation of DotGNU
> Virtual Identities".
> 
> Of course the full vision for DotGNU is much more powerful than
> Microsoft's full vision for .NET (including Hailstorm and passport)
> --but that's a different story.
> 
> Greetings, Norbert.
> 
> 
> Ron Burk <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > >There is another problem though.  One thing that you have to realize about
> > >passport and .NET is that it doesn't always use a web browser.  You could
> > >write application X, that makes use of passport.  This is where the
> > >problem with either the Apache module, or the above instance comes in, and
> > >this is why we are trying to develop a better alternative.
> > 
> > That's pretty much exactly the 80% of Passport that's currently
> > unimportant, AFAIK. I do not know of any real users using such
> > facilities, nor do I think most people will be using them during
> > the next 12 months. I see the more simple single login standard
> > as away to quickly establish mindshare with web designers and
> > real users, mindshare that would make them much more willing
> > to learn about a more complex offering that would likely have to
> > be delivered much later. I understand the future threat of that
> > other 80%, but if I have to take on a 300lb bully, I would rather
> > kick him in the knee first and only trade punches after the initial low blow
> > has proven successful. If a competing product steals the market
> > for the 20% of Passport's functionality that real people use
> > today, I believe that would represent a serious threat to
> > their ability to sell the more grandiose schemes that are
> > currently in the works, and provide much-needed credibility
> > for non-Microsoft alternative.
> 
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