FW: Netscape meeting: reality

Thanks for sending me this. I think Thomas is reading the situation pretty well. I think Dan is great but I agree he is being a little naive in this case. Although we want to work with them on SST and Docobj and we are willing to help them with their servers in order for them to align their browser more closely to our direction there is a problem. The problem is that their strength comes from their browsers popularity and we have decided to make our own browser popular hard core. With Java and its control architecture for forms they are WAY ahead of us but Paul and I are going to make sure the company gets the right priorities to fix that. Ironically the more popular our browser gets with our architectures the more likely it is that they will want to embrace our standards - however they are likely to embrace some bad standards during the process. This whole browser fight is going to be interesting. Their ambition to make money on browsers will hurt them - its just a case of getting greedy - they are the ones who made the rules that browsers are free.