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To: Chris who wrote (25874)	5/8/1998 1:42:00 PM
From: Maxer	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 97611

Chris: I appreciate your comments and agree with some of them. I think Netscape had no choice but to give the program away. They have to keep their market share. Unfortunately, Netscape is basically a one product company. Microsoft can afford to put a couple hundred million into a program then give it away. Not so with netscape. I think Netscape is taking a risk in publishing the source code. They may end up with a better browser than Microsoft could ever build. Or they could end up with a mess. Will be interesting to watch. If Microsoft published the source code to windows 98 and made it freely available for hackers to improve and republish, you would have a degree of chaos, but also, in the end, a much better OS for the world to use. But that's never going to happen because Microsoft would lose it's lock on the industry.