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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.

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

Mxsmanic wrote in

They stole proprietary code ...

Ever heard of NCSA Mosaic?

I worked in the same building as Marc Andreeson. At Netscape. Ever heard
of him?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M...laque_ncsa.jpg

Are you suggesting he stole his own code? Do you have any idea WTF you're
talking about?

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

No, they just wrote a better browser.

No, you really don't know what you're talking about. I had friends working
at Microsoft while I was working at Netscape.

Netscape was so busy patting itself on the back that it didn't notice,
and it never even tried to catch up.

To reiterate, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, and
once again you're talking to somebody who does.

-c

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Mxsmanic wrote in

They stole proprietary code ...

Ever heard of NCSA Mosaic?

I worked in the same building as Marc Andreeson. At Netscape. Ever heard
of him?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M...laque_ncsa.jpg

Are you suggesting he stole his own code? Do you have any idea WTF
you're talking about?

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

No, they just wrote a better browser.

No, you really don't know what you're talking about. I had friends
working at Microsoft while I was working at Netscape.

Netscape was so busy patting itself on the back that it didn't notice,
and it never even tried to catch up.

To reiterate, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, and
once again you're talking to somebody who does.


Gatt! Please!! Shoot him and put him out of our misery.

Gatt writes:

I worked in the same building as Marc Andreeson. At Netscape. Ever heard
of him?

Yes.

Are you suggesting he stole his own code?

I'm pointing out that no software is developed in a vacuum.

Do you have any idea WTF you're talking about?

Yes.

No, you really don't know what you're talking about. I had friends working
at Microsoft while I was working at Netscape.

Friends at Microsoft? Very impressive.

To reiterate, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, and
once again you're talking to somebody who does.

Netscape is a textbook example of how not to run a company. That's why
Netscape is history, and Microsoft is not.

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

Gatt writes:

I worked in the same building as Marc Andreeson. At Netscape. Ever
heard of him?

Yes.

Are you suggesting he stole his own code?

I'm pointing out that no software is developed in a vacuum.

Do you have any idea WTF you're talking about?

Yes.


No, you don't



Bertie