1.	I have also been an observer of the "browser war" between Microsoft and Netscape between 1995 and the present day. Now that Netscape is part of AOL, the war seems to be over. I wrote frequently about the war while it was raging, urging Netscape not to go into a direct faceoff with Microsoft, and pleading with Microsoft to leave Netscape alone for fear of limiting the growth of the web. I exchanged private emails with Marc Andreessen, the public spokesperson for Netscape. I talked with Netscape officers and board members. I emailed and spoke with Microsoft people from top to bottom. I feel very strongly that Netscape defined the terms of competition with Microsoft, they were overly confident, picked a poor strategy, and lost because of that, not because of bad character or practice at Microsoft.
2.	I also appreciate the opportunity to see the emails that Microsoft people exchanged over this subject. Clearly Microsoft could use an attitude transformation. They are far more destructive and negative than I would like them to be. I have also publicly urged Microsoft to learn to be more statesmanlike, to behave like the great company they have actually become.
3.	I predicted that they would get mired in legal hassles like this, not because of their strategies, which are reasonable, but are obfuscated by their tactics. I was visiting Microsoft the day their trick on Judge Jackson became public, and on that day I said to the people I was visiting that I was ashamed to be part of the software business because of what Microsoft was doing. It was a game they couldn't win. Jackson is like a customer. You don't want to see customers humiliated in public at the hands of a mere software vendor.
4.	But we can put that behind us. Clearly Microsoft will be more careful in the future. I think they got the message here. And I don't think AOL management will engage Microsoft at the level that Netscape did. I think either the browser war is over, or it's moving to a new more subtle level of sophistication.