Browser Wars RE: Authority of the marketplace?

[John D. Giorgis]

At 01:54 PM 7/17/01 -0700 Joshua Bell wrote:
>So it's in MS's best interest to factor as many things as possible and open 
>things up to competition. The Browser War wasn't won by making Netscape have 
>to develop their own hardware platform and OS (despite Judge Jackson's 
>overturned rulings, Netscape installs just fine on Windows, thank you very 
>much); 

Actually, I thought that Jackson argued that MS subtly designed Windows to
cause Netscape to crash.   It installs just fine, sure, it just won't run
for very long once you get it on there.

And based on my experience, I think he's exactly right.

JDG
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