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Microsoft's products cost money (minus piracy), and fought Free Software, which is also Gratis most of the time. Google is already Gratis (the ads don't count
by loup-vaillant 14y ago
Microsoft's products cost money (minus piracy), and fought Free Software, which is also Gratis most of the time.
Google is already Gratis (the ads don't count as a price in most people's minds).
- philwelch 14y agoI was referring more to IE, which was bundled with the OS to circumvent Netscape's business model.
- loup-vaillant 14y agoAh. Maybe it was because IE sucked for a long time, compared to Firefox?
- philwelch 14y agoGmail sucks too now (to give an example) but it's much harder to provide a viable alternative if you're an open source project or a startup. There will never be a Firefox of web mail, much less a Firefox of search engines.