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Evidence please
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 04:03 PM EDT
In Europe, yes, that's why Microsoft has to provide a browser election. But,
it's driven the price for browser software to zero. Before IE came out, there
was a thriving browser market. After IE came out, only the browsers which could
get revenue by getting paid for directing search to a partner, or were
associated with an OS, were able to survive with any significant usage.

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Evidence please
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 05:51 PM EDT
Well, at the time of the browser wars, Netscape was free, so the free price of
IE was not itself predatory. Microsoft did a lot of other things there that
were predatory/anticompetitive, but the free price wasn't part of it, IMO.

But Microsoft was in a different position than Google. Microsoft was definitely
a monopolist (defined as having enough market power to distort the market to the
extent that the normal market mechanisms can't cause the monopolist to lose
under any normal circumstances). Google, though they have a large market share,
is not in the same position. Being a monopolist is not in itself illegal, but
it does change the rules. Cross-subsidizing is, if I understand correctly,
illegal for a monopolist but not for a non-monopolist. So when I said that
Google is cross-subsidizing, that is not saying that Google is actually doing
anything wrong.

MSS2

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Ask Mosaic
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 02:18 AM EDT
Whether that was predatory to anyone else is another matter, but Mosaic
definitely got shafted.

What killed Netscape was that they couldn't even be pre-installed. Even if a
vendor wanted to include it, they could only put the installer in an obscure
directory with no references to it or even mentioned anywhere. The user had to
know it was there, find it, and then install it themselves. This was also back
when everybody was on dialup, so downloading it took hours.

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  • Ask Mosaic - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 11:07 AM EDT
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