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**flnastyax** · 02-20-2007, 02:14 AM

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Poor, plucky ickle Netscape needed protecting against the big bad MS - until Netscape got bought by mighty AOL-Time-Warner. So not-so-ickle Netscape. By then the damage had been done. The case really wasn't about browsers. Netscape had been giving its product away free for years. The real issue was servers, and whomever controlled the browser market controlled the server market. So MS violated its consent decree with the government by using it's predominant OS position to bundle its browser, thus leading to more companies making the decision to purchase MS servers to serve those pages.

02-20-2007, 02:14 AM	#4
flnastyax Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 454 Senior Member	Originally posted by Cort Haus Poor, plucky ickle Netscape needed protecting against the big bad MS - until Netscape got bought by mighty AOL-Time-Warner. So not-so-ickle Netscape. By then the damage had been done. The case really wasn't about browsers. Netscape had been giving its product away free for years. The real issue was servers, and whomever controlled the browser market controlled the server market. So MS violated its consent decree with the government by using it's predominant OS position to bundle its browser, thus leading to more companies making the decision to purchase MS servers to serve those pages.
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