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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (15813)	1/6/1998 12:29:00 AM
From: ET	Respond to of 24154

dan or other software geeks[used in the good way].......what do you think of ILOG [symbol ilogy]????? thanks.............

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (15813)	1/6/1998 12:37:00 AM
From: 16yearcycle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Dan, Explaining why he downloaded ie3.0, Lessig says, "only because I wanted to be entered...to win a 3400, sold my soul..." Wow, now this is a guy who should be involved in the US court system. Gene

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (15813)	1/6/1998 1:23:00 AM
From: damniseedemons	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>Netscape's obviously got problems, for having the timerity to go against Mighty Microsoft Dan, I have always thought that the biggest/dumbest mistake Netscape could have ever made was to put themselves in Microsoft's sights from the beginning ("avoid [for as long as possible] making an enemy out of someone more powerful than you"). From the beginning, an arrogant Netscape was talking about how their browser is going to replace Windows, Microsoft was doomed, blah blah blah. Sure, the Netscape vs. Microsoft war was inevitable....But Netscape fired the first shots, way sooner than they should have. Had they not done so, Microsoft wouldn't have developed such a sense of urgency and would have been much slower in formulating/executing their "Internet Strategy." As such, Netscape would be in a much better position right now. If the browser were really going to replace Windows, Netscape should have let it happen quietly. So maybe then, the process would have already started and Microsoft would have faced a more uphill battle. Sal PS. I think Sun made a similar mistake with positioning Java as "the Microsoft/Windows killa." Java is certainly in a better position than Netscape, at this point, but Sun didn't need to rev up the hype machine so much as to scare Microsoft into action.