[9290] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Interesting trend
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Mon Dec 27 22:41:56 1993
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1993 22:10:16 EST
From: "Russell Nelson" <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Here's an interesting trend I see starting: Winsock Clients for
cheap. There's an ad in the December 27, 1993 / January 3, 1994 PC
Week for WinGopher, page 51. For $69.95, they'll sell you a gopher
client for Windows. They can avoid all the support costs of helping
people with their TCP/IP stack, because a Winsock TCP/IP stack and
connection is a product requirement.
As far as I'm aware, this is the first stackless Winsock application.
I'm sure there will be others. In fact, I'm sure that eventually all
Winsock applications will be unbundled from the underlying stack.
And like Internet-in-a-Box, it brings up the spectre of hundreds of
thousands of Internet users who bring nothing to the party, and
worse, don't even know that they *should* bring anything.
