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Let's begin by looking at the facts, something
that seems to elude Webdud Dave.
The fact that Uncle Bill and the Boys from Redmond
got their butts kicked in court opened the door
for companies like AOL to try to get a piece of
the action.
It doesn't matter that the Netscape web browser
is inferior, which it clearly is, or that 99.9%
of all computer users running Windows would probably
choose Internet Explorer over Netscape. That's not
the point!
What we have here is a perfectly legitimate claim
-- at least in the eyes of the Justice Department
and the horde of state attorneys general that keep
pursuing Microsoft -- that Uncle Bill has made it
impossible for Netscape to compete since 1995 because
Internet Explorer is imbedded into the Windows operating
system and can't be removed without really screwing
things up.
Therein lies AOL's case. They claim that Netscape
was unable to afford to keep up with the Microsoft
megalopoly (they weren't owned by AOL then) because
they were forced to give away their browser (Netscape
users were paying for the privilege until 1995)
in order to compete with IE, which was always free.
Quality of product really never comes into play.
The question that needs to be answered is: "would
Netscape have been able to produce a better, more
compet-itive product if they and IE were competing
on a level playing field?"
I'm afraid this war's going to drag on, and on,
and on. |
Let me start by saying I'm sorry. I'm sorry because
I whipped Mike's butt last
week and I'm going to do it again this week!
Bring it on Daddy-O!
Now onto the important stuff.
In recent news AOL is suing Microsoft because Internet
Explorer owns most of the market share and there's
no room for poor old Netscape.
Is this really newsworthy? Is it really important?
Am I really as good looking as my picture up above?
No, no, yes.
Netscape can't compete. They're just crying over
spilled milk and don't have a leg to stand on.
Now while there's no way to uninstall Internet
Explorer from Windows XP, I really don't see a need
to. I stopped using Netscape with version 4.7. Once
version 6 came out it fell on its face. Even if
Mike doesn't admit to it, he wrote about it here.
Even this website is Internet Explorer friendly.
Our daily and weekly reports show that less than
4% of our website visitors use Netscape. Most everyone
else uses IE 5.0 or higher. So that's what the website
is optimized for. I'm not going to spend time making
this work in each and every browser. I am just going
to appeal to the masses. The rest can switch to
Internet Explorer.
Don't blame Microsoft for being successful.
Don't blame Bill Gates for being richer than God.
Don't blame me for being right all the time.
All of you AOL and Linux advocates can put your
shotguns away. The war's over. |
