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Can Linux Do What Netscape Couldn't?
A few years back, a lot of folks got really excited about Netscape. They were going to be the next Microsoft, their founder was lauded as the next Bill Gates, their IPO started the .com boom. The decade ended with a lot of us looking rather silly. Netscape had apparently had little direct impact on Microsoft at all. In fact, Netscape's biggest impact came after it was acquired and killed by AOL -- that action was a driver for the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust prosecution against Microsoft. The prosecution had more to do with Microsoft's behavior than Netscape's; apparently, even Microsoft had been convinced that Netscape was a threat and, unfortunately for Microsoft, the company misbehaved unnecessarily to stop a threat that never actually existed in the first place. ...
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