Re: Supply and Demand

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

  In reply to Robert Waugh's message sent 11/24/97 2:32 PM:
  
  >There is no way that you can liken Netscape's marketing strategy to
  >Microsoft's predatory strategy.  Netscape provides the browser for free to 
  >the
  >majority of individual consumers because our CEO thinks that it should be
  >accessible technology.  Microsoft provides their browser for free because
  >their CEO thinks that everyone should pay a royalty to use technology.
  
  I accept most of what you say, but allow me to pose the devil's advocate 
  question: Were there not several browsers on the market when Navigator 
  arrived on the scene, and didn't Netscape essentially drive them out?
  
     Mitch Stone
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