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Re: Traffic Page Problem with Netscape Communicator 4.6
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Date: 
Sat, 14 Aug 1999 03:50:56 GMT
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lpieniazek@AVOIDSPAMnovera.com
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Mike Stanley wrote:

I had Communicator crash on a Mac I was using the other day.  Thanks,
Bill!

Any serious Machead will tell you this is childs play to pin on Bill.
Here's the reasoning.

Windows unfairly dominates the world
- Therefore people write for Windows first
- Therefore stuff gets ported from a crappy system to a blessed glorious
one
- Therefore people are in a hurry because the deadline on the Windows
version of the next release is looming
- Therefore the porters don't take the time to learn the blessed system
well
- Therefore bugs get introduced.

Since we have a solid therefore chain, it's Bill's fault. See, wasn't
that easy?
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  Re: Traffic Page Problem with Netscape Communicator 4.6
 
(...) Yeah, but it breaks down at this point because the reality of the world we live in (where the PC is THE computer and the Mac is mostly a single-digit percentage also-ran) exists not only because of the massive far-reaching evil power of Bill (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: Traffic Page Problem with Netscape Communicator 4.6
 
(...) Wow, talk about gratuitous MS bashing. So it WORKS in Internet Explorer but it's BROKE in Communicator. Seems to me there are 3 groups of people you could choose to blame for something like this in general, with probably only 2 of them being (...) (25 years ago, 11-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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