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Sure, that may be true. And Microsoft also engaged in anticompetitive behavior. The behavior is still illegal, whether or not Netscape crashed.

If Microsoft had competed and won on technical merit and/or marketing, that would have been fine. But they didn't.




My point is that Netscape was uncompetitive due to it being nearly useless from constantly crashing. Blaming Microsoft is misplaced.

Today I still have IE on my machine, but I never use it, because Chrome causes fewer problems. Having it sit on the machine does no harm, and doesn't bother me.

That anti-trust battle was the first in history where it was a dispute between one free product and another free product. Nobody ever demonstrated any harm to consumers at all. That was never even an issue at trial. Nobody ever demonstrated that Netscape couldn't be installed.


None of that makes Microsoft's behavior more legal. So what are you arguing endlessly about?




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