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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Former Netscape boss Jim Barksdale

Former Netscape boss Jim Barksdale reckons the proposed anti-trust settlement would not have helped Netscape. What he fails to mention are any of the things that would have helped Netscape. Examples include: hiring senior people who knew something about Windows programming, writing a properly-architected browser, paying more attention to Internet (W3C) standards, not screwing up their marketing, and not being so insufferably arrogant when their browser had a dominant market share.

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