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"Meanwhile, today’s real-life Boyles constantly lobby for government restraints on their more able competitors. Remember when the überproductive Bill Gates star
by baguasquirrel 17y ago
"Meanwhile, today’s real-life Boyles constantly lobby for government restraints on their more able competitors. Remember when the überproductive Bill Gates started giving away free Web browsers to his customers, and Netscape ran to Washington demanding that Microsoft be shackled via antitrust laws?"
I was starting to think that this guy was onto something until I came to that sentence. It's nice of him to propose his own counterexample though.
- maxharris 17y agoNetscape imploded for internal reasons just as much as from competitive pressure from Microsoft. Do you remember Netscape 4? It was awful on every platform I had to run it on (IRIX, NT4 and System 7.) Microsoft didn't make it awful - only Netscape could do that. I still remember downloading the first IE4 release on my NT machine in the fall of 1997. It was much, much faster, more capable (CSS), nicer looking - and most importantly - more stable than Netscape. So Brook's example stands.