When you're lucky enough to be at the center of a rising platform, as Sun and Netscape are, its best to kick back, fix the bugs, improve performance, promote the developers, sell like hell, and enjoy the rewards. It's tempting to believe that more than luck was responsible, but what a burden that is. It's a philosophic challenge to define yourself after a lighting bolt of good luck strikes, but a company without a philosophy, or a weak one, has no future. We judge the strategies by the skirmishes and miss the major trend. Sun wants to control all the software, so does Netscape.
Actions speak loudly, forget the words.
It's about net-effect, not intentions. Of course it could still be fixed, every time around the loop that's possible. Copyright 1994-2001 Dave Winer . It's even worse than it appears.