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Their actions were taken to stop Netscape, and succeeded. Keeping Linux and Be off the desktop succeeded well enough also.
by mixmastamyk 3y ago
Their actions were taken to stop Netscape, and succeeded. Keeping Linux and Be off the desktop succeeded well enough also.
- WalterBright 3y ago> Their actions were taken to stop Netscape, and succeeded Making a much better product often does that. You'd know what I mean if you were a Netscape user :-/
- mixmastamyk 3y agoThey did lots shady things also, belt and suspenders style. Which is the subject here. I started on gopher and Mosaic and Netscape was far ahead and good enough for a long while. Only until IE4 did MS pull away. Of course by IE6 the damage was done and they left the entire industry broken with a moribund dominant browser that took a decade to recover from. Rot in hell.