"Gatt" wrote in
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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It was purchased and destroyed.

Actually, the competition improved, but WordPerfect did not.

You're an idiot.

I was a contractor at Netscape when IE4.0 came out. Basically, it
looked just like somebody stole the internal alpha copy of Netscape
Communicator.



(After Internet Exploder's release party in San Francisco, they
dropped a giant blue paper-mache-and-chickenwire "e" on the front lawn
of Netscape. Which would add trespassing and littering to theft,
except that by noon the 7' Netscape lizard, "Mozilla" was standing on
the yard among the smashed remains of the Microsoft "e".)

In Netscape's case, the competition didn't "improve." They stole
proprietary code and used massive personnel resources to get it to
market before the smaller company.


Who cares? I use wahtever works best and that's still mozilla for me..

I wouldn't expect people in
Europe to understand how that sort of thing happened in terms of web
browsers, word processors, spreadsheets and other "Microsoft products"
that bear striking resemblances to former competitors.


Yeah, they're still using two tin cans and piecs of string there.


Bertie