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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lee who wrote (41645)	2/27/2001 9:12:13 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

My recollection is that Netscape charged for their browser (about $50, except for students and a free one month +/- trial period) until Microsoft made IE free. Perhaps many people violated the license (just as you say you have broken several traffic laws already today), but I don't think it was free. IE was certainly not superior at first (and I don't think it is even today). I think I saw a news story about Microsoft being sued for false advertising, and they have clearly been found guilty (subject to appeal) of violating antitrust law. The things to which you say you take offence for the most part don't seem very serious to me: --going through trash, which I think refers to ORCL -- are you sure that's illegal?; --bad mouthing competitors "in a mean spirited way" -- not sure what you have in mind there; --hiring bug exterminator trucks as a publicity stunt, which I think Sun considered doing -- doesn't bother me at all; --confusing US statistics with worldwide -- sh*t happens, and they've been called on it. As for being free from sin -- none of us are exempt from that advice, but the first stone has long since been cast. JMHO. Charles Tutt (TM)