From the article: Giving away software is a great marketing tool. It's hard to compete if your competition is free. That's something that a number of companies have discovered. Now it's Microsoft's turn with Windows NT versus Linux. Still, if all software was free, none of us would have a job.
Sounds like this is just the tactic that MS used in its battle against Netscape. More lost irony.
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From the article:
Giving away software is a great marketing tool. It's hard to compete if your competition is free. That's something that a number of companies have discovered. Now it's Microsoft's turn with Windows NT versus Linux. Still, if all software was free, none of us would have a job.
Sounds like this is just the tactic that MS used in its battle against Netscape. More lost irony.