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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (19217)	5/18/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: Keith Hankin	Respond to of 24154

I think that's part of the problem for Netscape: they never had a plan to compete in the OS area, hence no independent platform on which to rely when Microsoft gave them grief. Now, with Andressen's idea to make Netscape the GUI for Linux, maybe that's changed. We'll have to wait and see. It sounds like you are mixing up two separate issues. One is competing OSes, the other is support for existing OSes. It would not be a good strategy for NSCP to attempt to create a competing OS platform. This is just more direct competition with NSCP, against their core product. This would be a sure way to die a quick and nasty death. However, it is a good strategy to encourage the use of alternative OSes, since this strengthens NSCP's hand. Linux is definitely an OS of which NSCP encourages use, by providing products for it.