Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 08:51:19 +0200 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Message-ID: <013301c1dadb$f665e350$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020401153352.02b99760@nospam.lariat.org> <3CA8EB5F.2E91B408@mindspring.com> <1017709221.71119.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3CA91382.4E4E2B@mindspring.com> <003a01c1da0e$4ec56080$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020402161351.A26122@wantadilla.lemis.com> <006901c1da80$599af0c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020403085624.J26122@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg writes: > But not money? Time and money. People at Netscape spent a lot of time gloating and goofing off. There were a lot of inexperienced young-male geeks among them, apparently. By the time they realized that they had a business to run, the competition had squashed them flat. > So you're saying that Microsoft didn't try to > kill Netscape? Microsoft doesn't try to "kill off" anyone, but it certainly tries to kill off competing products, as any successful company must if it is to remain viable. This was pretty easy in the case of Netscape, as the only thing going for Netscape was momentum from its initial success. Once Microsoft came out with a better product and gave it away for free (note that giving it away would not have worked alone--that's why the first versions of MSIE had little effect), Netscape was effectively doomed. Had Netscape tried to come up with a better browser, it might have survived. > I have to use Microsoft at work. It's crap. I originally moved to MSIE because it was a better browser than Netscape (by version 3.0--I ignored prior versions). The fact that it was free was a further incentive, since it eliminated licensing issues for myself and my employer. > What is the difference in your opinion? Standards have a basis in objective reality; bias does not. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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