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didn't netscape get its butt kicked by a bunch of programmers writing multithreaded COM?
by sayrer 17y ago
didn't netscape get its butt kicked by a bunch of programmers writing multithreaded COM?
- plinkplonk 17y ago"didn't netscape get its butt kicked by a bunch of programmers writing multithreaded COM?" In those days, almost everyone writing desktop softare got their butt kicked my programmers writing multi threaded COM who worked at Microsoft, a company that indulged in blatantly illegal or semi legal tactics to do said "butt kicking". Eric Sink recalls how he had an epihpany when he came to know that Micrsoft had 1000 developers working on IE, a product that they gave away. I wouldn't judge programming ability by getting steamrollered by the MS juggernaut.
- DrJokepu 17y agoBy giving away Internet Explorer free, Microsoft made web browsers a commodity. Before that, commercial users had to buy licences for Netscape Navigator. I think the web greatly benefited from that move.