Netscape's Clark over MS splitsing: hou IE bij Windows

Netscape oprichter Jim Clark pleit er voor dat de operating systems en Internet Explorer bij een splitsing van Microsoft in hetzelfde bedrijf ondergebracht moeten worden. De andere kant van de splitsing, het bedrijf dat zich zal toeleggen op applicaties en internet, zou te veel macht krijgen wanneer het tevens producent is van de meest gebruikte internet browser:

Microsoft already has won a near-stranglehold on the Web browser market, Clark noted. Allow this to continue for a few years, while the court case is appealed and the breakup is administered, and this market lock will become stronger.

That raises the potential for a huge new industry of Web services companies, from applications to entertainment, all using IE as a base for their products. Allow Microsoft to put its Web browser in the same company as its own Web services, such as Microsoft Network, and the courts are simply laying the groundwork for more market abuses, Clark warned.

"This would give (Microsoft's applications company) an enormous amount of power," he said.

The former Netscape chief is preparing the argument for a tentative U.S. Senate hearing on the subject, he said.

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