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Re:LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut ... by zorked on Thursday October 04, 2012 @07:09PM (#4614892)
As bad as Netscape 4 was, what killed the company was their decision to charge for the browser while their monopolitic competidor was giving it away for free.
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Re:LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut ... by tedunangst on Thursday October 04, 2012 @09:53PM (#4615330)
When a competitor undercuts your pricing with free, not doing anything for three years is unlikely to be the optimal response...
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Re:LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut ... by yuhong on Thursday October 04, 2012 @07:51PM (#4615024)
Actually the competitor deliberately did it in order to kill Netscape's business model. This also affected Opera too.
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