[WEB4LIB] RE:The beginning of the end for the Netscape Browser???

[Raymond Wood]

On 8 Jun 2001, at 13:54, Drew, Bill wrote:

> Netscape was dead the minute it was sold to AOL-TimeWarner.  That
> should have been obvious that a content company would not continue to
> develop a browser especially when it can't compete with IE.

Well, since this seems to be my day for splitting hairs...  :)

I think Navigator was competing with Explorer just fine.  The real 
issue was that Netscape (the company) could not compete with 
Microsoft's huge war chest combined with its monopolistic 
practices (i.e. product dumping).

Raymond (running and ducking...)
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