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To: Judd who wrote (11980)	11/24/1998 10:06:00 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Dear Judd: I am a consumer too, and I look forward to having the Netscape Browser. Are you an AOL subscriber? If you are you surely must have noticed the limitations of their current default browser. jdn

To: Judd who wrote (11980)	11/24/1998 10:21:00 AM
From: Frank Wechsler	Respond to of 64865

<Netscape can't make a browser that can effectively compete with one that MS is giving away for free... AOL is still so afraid of MS that they are going to keep the IE browser in AOL.> Duh..it's hard to compete with a company with a monopoly on the desktop. That's the problem. From what I understand, and anyone can correct me if I'm wrong, AOL has a CONTRACT to use the IE browser for another couple of months. I assume, after that, it will change. You see, we have a legal system that requires corporations to honor contracts they sign.What a drag. I think the people who have believed for so long that MSFT would rule the roost forever, and therefore buying the stock was a no-brainer are having trouble understanding that this may not be so. Also, Gates etal. alienated so many in Silicon Valley that they will do anything to make it change.