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Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had?

Posted by Soulskill on from the alternate-e-history dept.

Glyn Moody writes "In an interview, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and currently CIO at Mozilla, reveals that Microsoft tried to buy Netscape at the end of 1994. They were turned down because the offer was too low, but imagine if Netscape had accepted: no browser wars, no open Web standards, no Mozilla, no Firefox. How might the Web — and the world — have looked today if that had happened?"

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  1. Re:Fallacy by vagabond_gr · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is why "what if" scenarios are inherently stupid and pointless

    They are indeed... but what if they were not?