Mxsmanic wrote in
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Gatt writes:

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.

You may be thinking of an earlier version. The earlier versions of IE
were very inferior to Netscape, but IE4 was better. Netscape
continued to goof off, and Microsoft steamrollered them. Netscape
will go down in history as one of the worst-managed companies that
ever existed.

In Netscape's case, the competition didn't "improve."

Yes, it did. Netscape had an early success because it had no
competition, and a later failure when it finally did have competition.
Netscape made just about every mistake one could imagine. They could
have had it all, but they settled for nothing.

They stole proprietary code ...

Ever heard of NCSA Mosaic?

... and used massive personnel resources to get it to market before
the smaller company.

No, they just wrote a better browser. Netscape was so busy patting
itself on the back that it didn't notice, and it never even tried to
catch up.


You're an idiot.


Bertie