> In fact it almost never had a chance, especially in the current environment where anticompetitive moves are no longer really pushed back on by the govt. They

> In fact it almost never had a chance, especially in the current environment where anticompetitive moves are no longer really pushed back on by the govt. They used to have a great market share of 100%, but then Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with Windows, which was much easier to install than Netscape Navigator. Netscape then became the basis for the open source Mozilla Firefox project. As a side-note, the name Mozilla was derived from Mosaic Killer. Mosaic is the browser that was created by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This Mosaic browser was then bought by Microsoft and then the basis for Internet Explorer, which killed Netscape. > In fact it almost never had a chance, especially in the current environment where anticompetitive moves are no longer really pushed back on by the govt. I disagree with the statement that anticompetitive moves are no longer really pushed back on by the govt. Anticompetitive legislation was introduced in response to Standard Oil. On the day that the legislation split up Standard Oil in the many subsidiaries such as Chevron, BP, and Texaco, Rockefeller advised people to BUY shares of Standard Oil since the company was getting too big to run efficiently anyway. The legislation didn't have much effect as you can see from the fact that aforementioned subsidiaries still thrive today. I've learned these things from the Acquired podcast by the way. Can highly recommend.