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November 09, 2004
That Foxy Flame
Today FireFox 1.0 Released. This fact has been noted in many places around the internet, including Slashdot.
One of the more interesting places, however, was on the Mises Economics Blog. As happens to all topics on the Mises blog, the release of FireFox became a discussion of economics — specifically, this time, about monopolies...
You see, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has enjoyed between 94% and 97% market share for the past several years. Many were quick to cry foul — Microsoft obviously was exploiting its monopoly power to force us all to use their terrible browser, thus eliminating all competition in the browser market! How Evil!
Well, it didn't turn out quite like that, did it. Turns out, Internet Explorer was vastly superior to most of the alternatives, and it was free. At the time Netscape Navigator — the major competitor — cost $29.99 (or maybe $29.95, but either way NOT FREE).
Why would anyone, especially a non tech-savvy individual, go buy a piece of software that would only serve to replace an at-least-as-good product that they already had (properly configured even).
Enter FireFox: In the last several months, more and more people have been saying "switch to FireFox, it's more secure."
Guess what... for the first time since version 3.0, Internet explorer is losing marketshare! They've fallen to just below 92% in recent weeks, and this was before the first production release of the browser.
Why has Microsoft been suffering these losses? Does FireFox bundle itself with the Mozilla Proprietary Operating System? Has Microsoft given up on its Operating System market? I don't think so. People have just discovered what appears to be a superior product. They no longer desire the Microsoft product, and so have taken steps to pick up another product that is at least as free as the Microsoft one.
And it didn't take any big DoJ lawsuit to make it happen either.
— The Shelanman.
Posted by andrew at November 9, 2004 04:47 PM
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