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by marshray 5119 days ago
I think it shows that "Works best with X" can easily turn into "Works best with Y" and nobody is better at that game than Microsoft. Almost nobody can stay in business once Microsoft decides to destroy you by bundling a copycat product for free with their monopoly OS. But still it was shortsighted of Netscape to:

a) Try to get the web hooked on nonstandard behavior such as lenient parsing.

b) Charge money for the browser.