Christopher Jahn wrote:

> MS doesn't SELL their browser, they don't actually make 
> a DIME off of it.  The ONLY reason that IE has market dominance 
> is because MicroSoft illegally used its monopoly power.


<nitpick>
replace "The ONLY reason" with "One of the reasons".

 From a user perspective, later releases of IE4 were "better" than NS4.x 
in several ways, primarily stability.  IE5 beats it too, in the eyes of 
many, many users.

In my opinion, given a straight fight (which manifestly did NOT happen, 
see the US Supreme Court's "Findings of Fact" for details) IE4/5 would 
have won significant market share from Netscape.  They would not have 
achieved total market dominance, nor risen to market leader, as quickly 
as actually happened, but with IE4 out there, Netscape would not have 
held on to the 85% (or whatever) market share they had.

</nitpick>

-- 
gav


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