[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“I’ve been looking back this week and recalling almost a decade
ago when a little company called Netscape prematurely slapped
Microsoft upside the head and by so doing better positioned
Microsoft for the future. Granted, I’m sure Microsoft would have
loved to avoid the related litigation that continues to this day,
but were it not for Netscape, Microsoft would have missed the
Internet badly and would have had some much tougher years then they
did.“As I look at how Microsoft is changing to address the Linux
threat, one that may actually turn out to be no more real then
Netscape’s was, I can’t help but see how Microsoft has dramatically
benefited from it–and much more broadly so than they did from the
rise of Netscape…”
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