You guys, why don't you just go back to How High can Microsoft ... and gloat among yourselves. Netscape's obviously got problems, for having the timerity to go against Mighty Microsoft, the greatest company in the history of the known universe. Too bad for them. A naive reading of the law would indicate that being driven out of business by a competitor duplicating your product and giving it away may leave you with avenues of legal redress, but that remains to be seen. Meanwhile, the world remains such an unfair place for the courteous, ethical, humorous Bill and his cohorts.
You may have missed this story, Gene. It's not about Netscape, but I find it even more distasteful, in its own way. news.com You, or Dowd, or Middleton, or Sal, or Bowers want to take a crack at explaining this one to me, I'll read respectfully. From the outside, it makes no sense in any "free market" theory I've ever heard of. For Microsoft, it sounds mostly par for the course, like the stolen DEC code at the heart of NT, or the "Chinese Wall" amended to "flying in formation", or "DOS isn't done till Lotus won't run", or SCO saddled paying Bill more than they were making themselves on Unix licenses, in perpetuity, for useless and obsolete code till those other judges unfairly stepped in. Maybe that's just business, and that's too bad. What can I say.
Cheers, Dan. |
