{"id":1026,"date":"2006-03-29T20:37:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T00:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2006-03-29T20:38:11","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T00:38:11","slug":"gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">V<\/span>ia <a href=\"http:\/\/blakeross.com\/2006\/03\/28\/gratitude\/\">Blake Ross&#8217;<\/a>, I read that we should thank Microsoft for its <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/carroll\/index.php?p=1553\">monopolistic behaviour<\/a>. After all:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and for all those who lament the pre-inclusion of Internet Explorer, it&#8217;s worth noting that if IE WASN&#8217;T pre-installed, most people wouldn&#8217;t be able to download all that IM, media playing, or even alternative browsers such as Firefox. In other words, if IE wasn&#8217;t pre-included with Windows, the market for software &#8211; including open source software targeted at desktop computers &#8211; might actually shrink. Talk about sucking the air out of a market.\n<\/p>\n<p>When I first heard about &#8216;these internets&#8217;, I&#8217;m pretty sure the very first browser I got (Mosaic)  was downloaded from an FTP site and then, put on a 1.44 MB 3 1\/4&#8243; disk for me. No Internet Explorer was required: after all a web browser was (and still should be) a stand-alone application. It&#8217;s exactly the integration of IE into Windows 98 that got (and keeps getting) Microsoft in antitrust troubles.<\/p>\n<p> However, there&#8217;s no doubt in my mind that Microsoft played a crucial part (as in targeting the consumer and the desktop) in the evolution of &#8216;information technology&#8217;. But that is a different question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Blake Ross&#8217;, I read that we should thank Microsoft for its monopolistic behaviour. After all: \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and for all those who lament the pre-inclusion of Internet Explorer, it&#8217;s worth noting that if IE WASN&#8217;T pre-installed, most people wouldn&#8217;t be able &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1026\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}