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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (3107)	7/14/2001 11:58:06 PM
From: Drew Williams	Read Replies (2) of 12232

re: the browser wars One thing I would like to know is what Netscape wanted to do that they were never able to do? Other than stay in business, that is. What browser innovations did they want to make happen that never happened because of what Microsoft did? I'm not being sarcastic here. (OK, maybe a little, but that is necessary because this is Mqurice's thread.) It is my humble opinion that even without Microsoft's unethical behavior, Netscape's business model would still have been unsustainable and they would still have suffered the same fate, although it probably would have taken longer. There were gazillions of browsers around in those days (I have disks for several) all of which were functional equivalents, and all were based on the same licensed code as was Netscape. Clearly, there was going to be consolidation in the industry. It is also clear to me that Microsoft will survive (if not necessarily prosper) in any market segment they choose to compete. That is part of being a 500 pound gorilla (who can sit anywhere he wants.) Frankly, without Netscape coming up with something really radically different, Microsoft still would have won the browser wars even without doing all the nasty stuff they did (and apparently continue to do.) We won't go on to talk about Microsoft Word (which I hate) and WordPerfect (which I love). I'm not condoning what Microsoft did, of course. But if you really want to know about playing hardball in business, read Ron Chernow's "Titan : The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr." amazon.com Or better yet, Ida Tarbell's "The History of the Standard Oil Company" amazon.com

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