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Re: Anti-MS Whiners
said by Combat Chuck  :
So microsoft was anticompetitive based on something a phone monkey told you?
This at a time when many people refered to the world wide web as "Netscape".
Not the common phone monkey, several layers up in the hierarchy. I was the monkey, the Microsoft rep and one of our managers were doing the talking with input from us trench workers. But even if a common phone monkey knew about what was going on, that a promise to at least one major client was not only broken, but destroyed to work on a certain project, then I guess that might be a slight clue as what was going on. Microsoft can not stand competition, at any any cost.
You are right in what appears to be your hidden point. They did not do anything outright illegal, at the time. And no contracts were broken because although Microsoft mail did not scale as promised, it worked as specified on paper. And everyone knows that an American's verbal contract is not worth anything, especially from big business and lawyers.
said by Combat Chuck :
Point is netscape didn't lose money and probably actually gained money because Microsoft made it so home users didn't have to worry about downloading a browser. You can't claim somebody undercut your business when in fact you are giving away the item for free.
That is where you are wrong. Did you ever read or fill out a Netscape agreement back then? Only if you were a select group like a student could you use it for free. If you were not, then you were suppose to pay. I know I did not since I was a student. It was 'honor-ware', which many people interpret as 'free-ware'. It was sometime after the advent of the Microsoft browser and the fact that free and present outweighed cost and have to get, that Netscape woke up to the fact that although they were better, they were outclassed in the market and went free.
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