Good point. Joel Spolsky talks about how Netscape shot themselves in
the foot in an interesting article about "Things You Should Never Do":
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Cheers,
Carl.
On 15/03/07, Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 2007-03-15T12:42:19+1300, Don Gould wrote:
> Do you recall the impact of including IE in windows 95 for Netscape?
Hang on, you want to call for a boycott because of the bundling of some
search toolbar? You're not, perhaps, a little more concerned that you can't
buy a PC that doesn't come bundled with _Windows_?
Google, Yahoo!, and the others are already striking similar toolbar bundling
deals with the vendors. Microsoft are doing the same thing. There's
nothing too strange about this.
Besides, to gain any sort of monopoly on search they need to make their
search engine as good as the others, otherwise people will keep going to the
competition. Microsoft didn't win the browser wars in the late 90s just
thanks to bundling, they actually had build a _better_ browser than Netscape
could as well, otherwise people still had a reason to download Navigator.
Cheers,
-mjg
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