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Had Microsoft not shipped IE for free, piracy would have taken Opera and Netscape out of business. Or Adobe would have. Enterprise customers don't have the tim
by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
Had Microsoft not shipped IE for free, piracy would have taken Opera and Netscape out of business.
Or Adobe would have. Enterprise customers don't have the time to shop one piece of software for every function.
Microsoft Server solves(ed) them lots of problems.
- smcl 4y agoI don't see how that follows. In fact Opera existed as a paid product for years after IE started being bundled with Windows, Netscape open-sourcing and even after Google released Chrome. It's now been bought by a Chinese conglomerate and is apparently "freeware", but the fact that it lasted so long against free or OSS browsers suggests they probably would've survived just fine.