40-year-old computer mouse demo still amazes
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Dec 17 16:58:48 UTC 2008
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:18:59PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> Actually, if you read their history, there are a few instances of where
> they, one way or another, killed innovative companies, that might have
> threatened them in some way. Read about what happened to DR-DOS for one
> example or Netscape for another. Then there's how they appeared to be
> promoting OS/2 and got other software companies to follow suit and then
> pushed Windows, for which they were the only ones with apps ready to go.
> The list goes on...
I blame netscape 4 for the demise of netscape. That one was not
microsoft's fault, although microsoft did ruin the idea of making money
on netscape.
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Len Sorensen
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