[NTLUG:Discuss] Bad Signs for Open Source

[Steve]

Mike Hart wrote:

> Yahoo Turns from Netscape/Java!!
> 
> This appears on todays Yahoo news site.
> 
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20010914/tc/yahoo_turns_from_sun-netscape_technology_1.html


I don't follow. The article doesn't talk about Java per se, just a move 
away from iPlanet to Novell. How is iPlanet, a proprietary product of 
Netscape/Sun, open source? And what does this have to do with Java?


> I've used Yahoo almost exlusively for my 'free'
> services in the last 2 years because they've supported
> open platforms over microsoft technologies. That is:
> 
> Their games are java based
> Their IM client runs on just about every platform
> They Sync to palm/WAP phone (and not CE)


A lot of Free-BSD.


Steve