Can any of the ranting jackals out here explain HOW navigator was actual competition to Windows?
Ranting Jackals! Great new ad hominem! I was feeling sort of neglected since I missed out on the "crybaby whining bitches" over on how high.
On this particular line, I think you're sort of confused, you're spouting the Microsoft line. You'll have to as Bill and Co. Bill's told us, of course, that Windows could be replaced in a day, if there where only some bright innovators around. Anyway, we got this.
In building its case against Microsoft, the Justice Department cites an alleged email from Gates as just one sign of its concern about the market dominance of Netscape Communications' Navigator browser.
"A new competitor 'born' on the Internet is Netscape," Gates said in a 1995 memo to Microsoft executives, according to the Justice Department. "Their browser is dominant, with a 70 percent usage share, allowing them to determine which network extensions will catch on. They also are pursuing a multiplatform strategy where they move the key API [applications programming interface] into the client to commoditize the underlying operating system."
(from news.com )
Of course, on this little piece of evidence, I'm sure I'm a victim of that famous hobgoblin of small minds again. It's been after me a lot lately.
I agree about the great theater, very entertaining part though. Great Microsoft innovation, making entertainment out of antitrust law. Who could have imagined?
Cheers, Dan. |
