Originally posted by Memphis Raines
the big fuss was that microsoft used unfair coding conventions to lock out competitors. Netscape was meant to be a free platform to support Java, Java was meant to be the basis of new operating systems taht would be licensed for use from Sun.
That was the second monopoly fuss. From Netscape's point of view, mind you. The whole judicial process came about because Internet Explorer came packaged with Windows, which was - to Netscape - unfair business practice, because who would go buy a competitor's product when they already had IE? IE still has immense netshare simply because people are either A) too lazy or B) too cheap to download or purchase other products.