And it came to pass that gavin long wrote:
> 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".
>
The primary (90%) reason.
> From a user perspective, later releases of IE4 were
> "better" than NS4.x
> in several ways, primarily stability.
I couldn't stand IE4, which is why I went to Nestscape 4.
> IE5 beats it too, in
> the eyes of many, many users.
But I'll bet that the eyes of many, many users have never used
anything else. There are studies ( and at least one Supreme
Court ruling) that support my position.
>
> 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.
Like the actual results of the last presidential election, we'll
never know now.
--
}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
How sharper than a hound's tooth it is to have a thankless
serpent.
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