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It wasn't so much offering a browser for free as compelling PC vendors to not bundle their competitor's browser. You might of course argue that a PC should have
by dboreham 3y ago
It wasn't so much offering a browser for free as compelling PC vendors to not bundle their competitor's browser. You might of course argue that a PC should have zero browsers bundled...
- WalterBright 3y agoMicrosoft also bundled a text editor (EDLIN). It didn't impair anybody else from writing and selling editors. They also included a programming language (BASIC) for free. Didn't impair other language creators.
- miah_ 3y agoNobody did word processing in edlin. The version of basic included with most computers didn't allow you to compile your program.
- WalterBright 3y agoThere were innumerable code text editors for DOS. Besides, what you're saying is people wrote better replacements for the bundled stuff. Netscape, however, was worse than Explorer.