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why does MS not like Netscape?

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Chooco:
if Microsoft does not actually SELL internet explorer, why do they care about taking down Netscape? it's not like they're making a proffit off this.

Ice-9:
It's not about profit, it's about control.
M$ wants to control what you see, how you see it and what you will see first.

psyjax:
Ice9 basically has it.

Most people use IE not becaous it's the best browser but it's what comes "integrated" into their wintell box. They don't bother to try something else because IE is a path of least resistance.

That way M$ can impose any "standard" they want. Things that will only work on IE. Think .NET M$Java and even an earlier plan to make their own proprietary HTML format.

So eventually M$ ends up controlling the eyes with which we see the net. I think a moment of contemplation on this will soon reveal why this is so bad.

Calum:
actually they do charge for internet explorer. Everybody who buys windows pays for it, and anybody who gets a 'free' copy of internet explorer can only run it in windows. Hence, everybody that uses it has paid for it. That's monopolistic and should be illegal.

Also, apart from all that, Netscape Communications represents open source software succeeding. Netscape opened the code of their browser as an experiment, succeeded, and gave GNU/Linux the boost in market confidence that it needed at that time, amongst other things.

Netscape is now owned by AOL, and i suspect that the two giants will try to tear each other down with no mercy.

Kintaro:
And Microsoft then can control the internet standards and with this then they can stop shipping it for Apple and solaris and then too use the Internet you can only use Windows. Thats directly related to the Windows Monopoly. Mind you, every person i tell about Microsoft's Internet Explorer Monopoly (MIEM) They usually switch to Netscape and/or Mozilla. I have nothing against A0L except the fact that they are part of the MIEM and eventually Windows will only support the protocols such as: MSN, MSN, and MSN. And A0L seem to have forced us to use More Microsoft product's and this will shove A0L into the ground. Hence, Suiside... Unless A0L realize this they will be completely "Rooted" over and therfore they should be stoped now. Or they should switch to a different Operating System.

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