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> Microsoft's wins are hard fought and fair Was giving Internet Explorer away for free along with Windows and bankrupting Netscape fair ?
by supremesaboteur 9y ago
> Microsoft's wins are hard fought and fair
Was giving Internet Explorer away for free along with Windows and bankrupting Netscape fair ?
- mciancia 9y agoYes.
- chinathrow 9y agoWhy? Also, that's not the view of the court within the EU antitrust case against MS.
- kauffj 9y agoYes.
- scarface74 9y agoI think you have rose colored glasses on about Netscape around the time that IE was given away for free. I remember an article that came out in the late 90s comparing how badly NS crashed on every platform that it ran on. Why is it anti competitive for MS to give away IE for free but not anticompetitive for Google to give away Chrome and Android for free or Apple to give away IOS/MacOS for "free". Every tech company "commoditizes their complements". IBM supports free operative systems to sell hardware and services, Apple gives away IOS updates to sell hardware, Google gives everything away for free to sell ads, etc. Is it also wrong for open source software to be free?
- EduardoBautista 9y agoFor consumers this later lead to other great free browsers.