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What was unethical about how they beat Netscape? They were the first to realize that “browser technology” (as Gates repeatedly called it during his antitrust de
by twoodfin 4y ago
What was unethical about how they beat Netscape? They were the first to realize that “browser technology” (as Gates repeatedly called it during his antitrust deposition) would be beneficial to consumers as part of the OS platform, and lo today you can’t find a consumer OS on any device that doesn’t embed its own web engine.
- the_third_wave 4y agohttps://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-fact https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f... Search for "Netscape" if you're really interested.
- twoodfin 4y agoThat's not actually responsive to my question. If you read the FoF, it's very concerned with the fact that Microsoft passed up opportunities to charge for IE licenses in order to gain browser share at Netscape's expense. Yet barely a decade later, both Apple and Google took the same path. Again: What was unethical about giving away browser technology, inside Windows and outside of it? Or: When did giving away browser technology with your OS stop being unethical?
- dboreham 4y agoEnjoy your "browser-device". Some people prefer their computer to be separable from the applications it runs.