[and for Mr. Meyer, please refrain from personal insults. I don't insult anyone personally on SI, I would hope others have the same common courtesy]
Right, Scott. You replied to me, and quoted what I wrote as an example of hypocrisy, but you don't insult others personally. Oh, and you weren't speaking of me specifically either. Whatever.
There's somewhat more than browser bundling going on here, in case you haven't noticed. The preferred term is "integration", anyway, and "innovation", of course. I guess I have to round up the usual suspect quotes after all.
When the discussion turned to Netscape, one Intel executive, who asked not to be identified, recalled Maritz saying: "We are going to cut off their air supply. Everything they're selling, we're going to give away for free."
In January, when the company's chief operating officer, Bob Herbold, was asked what competing software firms could do when Microsoft decided to fold a product into Windows, Herbold told Bloomberg News that they had three options: fight and lose, sell to Microsoft or "not go into the business to begin with." So much for Gates' professed concern for preserving consumer choice and dynamic, competitive markets.
URL's available on request, of course, it's not like I haven't posted them before.
Oh, and back to one of your original examples of how a good company could compete, i.e. Quicken. There's a certain irony there too, presumably unintended. You've been around here long enough to remember the protestations of unfairness in the FTC blocking Bill's acquisition of Intuit, not? RealAudio, I can't say about that, but streaming video is another problem area, I understand.
Cheers, Dan. |
