But what you describe might be like one runt coming along and kneecapping the first, stealing the ball and scoring. Perhaps illegal, perhaps you're well justified in being angry about it.
But not a Sherman Anti-Trust violation. Netscape was no monopoly before it eclipsed Mosaic. It didn't exist then.
I wasn't defending Netscape (nor supporting them).
I was attacking MicroSoft, and defending that attack against allegations of hypocrisy, on the grounds that Sun should be found just as guilty of the same crime, undercutting someone elses livelihood with a freebie.
It remains the case that I agree with the courts that MicroSoft was guilty of Anti-Trust violations. Nothing you've said about Sun or Netscape, even if accurate in letter and spirit, suggests that they violated that particular law.
If you, and others, find the application of existing law to MicroSoft so outrageous, as clearly many do, including Rush, with whom I agree more often than not, then why in tarnation don't you criticize the dang law??.
The real example of hypocrisy I see here is this -- when the law is applied to MicroSoft, it's an outrage, but when it's not applied to Clinton, that's also an outrage.
In other words, if you'd like a chance to turn this subthread back around in a constructive direction, then how about commenting on whether you find the Sherman Anti-Trust regulations to be good law or not?
Well, you change the subject, Mr Joe. Perhaps Netscape stole something (perhaps it was open source - I don't know).Quoting now:NCSA Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. NCSA Mosaic software is copyrighted by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (UI), and ownership remains with the UI.http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html... and INDEED Netscape is derived from NCSA's Mosaic ...
(WHO do you suppose pays the bills at at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.?)