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2009-04-02 , 23:31
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#58
Originally Posted by tso View Post
...the web browser issue was one of using a virtual monopoly in one area to potentially create one in another via bundling (buy one, get the other free).

thing is that at the time the browser was not the real issue, it was server tech. netscape had their server, microsoft had iis.

both sides had in theory dirty hands, but netscape at least avoided giving one part away to sell the other (browser with custom support for value adding additions at the server end).

microsoft had already virtually taken down one competitor via bundling, novell...
Nice recall.

We were so much older then. We're younger than that now...

I was in Livermore, CA back then and was eventually part of the class action when that law suit expanded. About 6 or 7 years later, when I'm back on the right coast, I get a check for something like $170 based on some convoluted formula...

The law firm made out OK though. They were from Walnut Creek as I recall. The whole thing was dropped in their lap by some dude from Socilito who was pissed off and just walked in off the street.... So the story goes.