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...modify their desktops at will and remove Explorer if they so desire; and let online services that have Windows deals promote the Netscape browser anyway. Microsoft responds that stripping Explorer from Windows 98 would mean rewriting significant parts of an operating system that contains 18.2 million lines of code, thus greatly hampering its release--a dubious definition of consumer protection...
Such talk was partly the bravado of engineers who recognize that everything in the universe ends in entropy and disarray. It's also the organized religion of any successful start-up: We're working 120 hours a week, and we may be doomed even if we ship our code on time--but at least we're doomed together, so back to work...
Since then, the company has made a number of moves to keep itself in the game, including a deal with search-engine firm Excite that will bring in $70 million over the next two years. But it's also been reduced to giving away its browser code for free in a last-ditch effort to enlist every anti-Microsoft hacker on the planet to do battle with Gates...
Microsoft had been dogging Netscape almost from Day One. In early 1994, according to Jim Clark, the maverick Stanford professor who co-founded the company, Microsoft wanted to license Netscape's code for $1 million. But Clark sent word that he wasn't "even remotely interested...
Perhaps if Netscape had agreed to license its code, the company would be in better shape today. But probably not. Microsoft ended up doing the deal with an outfit called Spyglass, whose code became the core of Internet Explorer. Spyglass has since left the PC browser business and is selling software for hand held devices and TV set-top boxes. It posted a $9.7 million loss last year. It was doomed...