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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (18826)	4/29/1998 3:25:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Gosh, Reggie, I didn't know that the contest for "straw man argument of the year" award had already started. Tell that to the 32 browser companies that NSCP put out of business. ... BTW, I wonder where MSFT got the free browser business model from. HMMM????? Offering a better product at a lower (or free) price has never been the issue. Illegal tying of products and monopoly preservation is the issue. Mind telling us which monopoly products Netscape tied its browser to?

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (18826)	4/29/1998 6:11:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Reggie, do I have to dig up the Spyglass story from the NYT for you again? Spyglass, that licensed the Mosaic code to probably most of those 32 companies? Spyglass, which made the 2nd biggest bonehead deal of the century, selling out cheap to Bill, for royalties on win3.1 only? Then saw their revenues go to zero in a year after Microsoft decided IE would be free forever? They didn't think Netscape did it to them. Of course, they held out for more than the initial $100k flat offer that Bill traditionally insults people with first. Reggie, you are completely clueless. Keep trotting out the tired company lines, you think nobody ever catches on? Want to tell us about the stock buybacks that aren't stock buybacks now too? Cheers, Dan.