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If the web hadn't become free, Microsoft may not have lost their foothold.
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
If the web hadn't become free, Microsoft may not have lost their foothold.
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoBecome free? Netscape wasn't free. It didn't even try to be free before the Mozilla project really. In fact I remember switching to Opera before IE because Netscape was shitty.
- sillysaurus3 9y ago> Snapchat better have been worth it, as I can assure you that crushing Netscape wasn't worth what it cost Microsoft. What exactly did it cost them? Microsoft became irrelevant when the web took off, and the web took off partly because Microsoft made it free to crush Netscape. They dropped the price of browsers to zero.