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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (19173)5/17/1998 4:58:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
Norm, re What exactly did they do wrong?

What Netscape did wrong was they forgot a couple of things:

1) Microsoft programmers can write programs too.
2) The browser performs a utilitarian function -- and as such was destined to be a part of the operating system, and rightly so.

Reasons:
The browser simply sends requests for information to other computers at certain specified addresses. That info is then sent back to the requester's address, and the browser displays the info in a generally graphical, sometimes multimedia way. The graphics/multimedia aspect of viewing data was NOT developed by Netscape -- HTML was invented soley by Tim Berners-Lee. This whole browsing concept sounds like an operating system function to me.

Netscape simply didn't look far enough into the future. I personally think that while Netscape founders may have been whiz kids, they simply underestimated the wide variety of pitfalls can be when operating a business in a free market.

The odd thing about this is the guy who really did work hard on the WWW graphical concept, Tim Berners-Lee, has got nothing except gratification. Yet Netscape piggy-backed on Tim Berners-Lee's invention, and yet claim that Microsoft copied Netscape. Has Netscape offered Tim Berners-Lee any compensation for his 10-year effort in developing HTML? Where's their sympathy for Tim, and his "right" to profit?
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