Which honestly is a who gives a rats ass.
Netscape was charging money for their browser back then.
Like, gee, who would have thought a free version preinstalled would do better…
Anti trust got thrown at them not because they were doing evil. It’s because they were suffocatingly dominant because the alternatives were not as good.
Netscape, aka eventually Mozilla, made several mistakes along the way. I used Netscape during these times and remember switching.
So by masters of anti trust, what you mean is they were the master of offering a dominant product. You’re spinning this like they were being deceptive or evil. That’s either a lie, or you’re misinformed.
Setting the default search engine(the entire reason why someone wants to be the default browser) is a huge payday from Google to apples safari, Firefox or whomever and everyone tries to do it and it’s fine, up until the point where you are the leader in the industry. Kind of like prostitution, it’s only illegal until you film it. The crime these companies are committing are competition crimes, but are totally not evil and fine to do as long as you aren’t the top dog.
If anything, Google should get smacked with Anti Trust for paying all these browser to be the default search. Many people are unaware that’s how browsers, which are free to download, make their money.
But if Microsoft does this, oh no, it’s anti trust. Watch. Google already demolished every other search engine out there besides bing. Literally edge/internet explorer is the only reason why Google has a single search competitor.
But let’s bash on Microsoft edge some more so we can have even less search options. Yeah that will be good for the people…
