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> I think Steve's fears of proprietary approaches is unwarranted.[snip]
> Microsoft gives us borderless frames and background audio. Netscape gives
> us HTML-based email. It would depend on a publisher's priorities -  is
> email more important? or is audio? - which way to go. And priorities depend
> on subscriber base and advertising base. [snip]
> 
> It boils down to knowing your customer better than you know your spouse,
> and designing products to meet your customers' needs.


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Man are you looking at things with narrow blinkers!  The problem is not 
with publishers having to choose formats, the problem is with 
subscribers having to pick one.  Do you think anyone is going to pick 
one browser over another based on what format the Boston Globe or any 
other single online publication is using?  Gates is screwing up WWW by 
pissing in the garden, and guess who's sitting in the garden while he 
pisses?

Roberto_______________________


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