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Calif Bill

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:03:07 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:40:25 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

Does anybody find it highly amusing that Adobe, who in truth, controls
almost 90% of streaming video via Flash and 75% of the digital
video/imagery/text content on the web via CS3 and Reader is ****ed off
about Silverlight being potential competition?

Talk about the pot caling the kettle black. :)

Tell that to Netscape, the one time dominant browser.

At one time the ONLY browser until Microsoft developed Windows 3.0.
Unfortunately, Andreessen was a horrible businessman and couldn't
compete.

This is a case that relates back to Eisboch's earlier comment about
Left/Right. Andreessen wanted the government to solve his problem for
him.

Nature of competition - he got punked and badly.

And I say that as a early adopter of Mosiac and Navigator which was a
great browser - no doubt about it.

Andreessen really did not own the rights to Netscape in the first place.
Was developed under a government grant to him in university. But he should
have brough in a good business guy. Give away the browser for personal use
and let the clients do the debugging. Then charge for the commercial
version. Made good money for awhile.