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To: ed who wrote (10640)	9/10/1998 12:46:00 AM
From: paul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

"Why not just let the loser sink to the drain , and sooner or later we will see another stronger NSCP come to the market to compete" i dont think it works this way. How much innovation do you see in the areas of word processors, spreadsheets, desktop db's, PIM's, project management software, etc. and if netscape goes down - browsers - maybe you consider the flying dog that gives condesending advice in office 98 innovation but I dont. Microsoft chooses who wins and loses on their platform and its always Microsoft. They use this as a cash cow to extend their monopoly into wherever they want to go next - of course safely after some other company has established a viable market for it. The loser is the customer and innovation - but i guess some find that an acceptable trade-off as long as their stock (or stock options) go up.

To: ed who wrote (10640)	9/10/1998 1:25:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 74651

Ed, Do you seriously believe and can say on this board with a straight face that MSFT's IE has quickly destroyed NSCP's marketshare lead because it came on the market as a better product than Netscape Navigator? The better product is NSCP's browsers (still is the better product - its more stable and full featured). So tell me why IE has drastically swallowed NSCP's marketshare? Very easy answer, because of MSFT's FUD and because MSFT included its browser right on the WIN95 install. Witht the Netscape Browsers one must first get onto the internet to download it. Surprise Surprise, most will use the IE to get it. So how many end up actually go through with the switch from an already installed browser to get a new browser to install? If you cant see that, then you really have the blinders on buddy! Just admit that you are a MSFT Lemming Ed. You likely dont even see the logic in what I'm saying. Toy

To: ed who wrote (10640)	9/10/1998 11:52:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 74651

Not that ed needs anybody else to argue with, but again we're into this funny realm of neologistics on what constitutes a "free market". For the weak NSCP, just let it sink, and disappear, if it can not compete in a free market by itself. Remember, Bill doesn't think it's a free market, or at least he didn't in a previous version of history. At one point, Slivka proposed that Microsoft give away some software on the Net, as Netscape was doing. Gates, he recalls, ''called me a communist.'' (from businessweek.com ) I'm with Bill here, this "free forever" IE operation still sounds like a planned economy to me. I probably missed out on Bill's currently operative definition of communism, though. But revisionist history is sort of a commie thing too, at least Stalin was big on it. Cheers, Dan.