KenB - 9:40 pm on Dec 18, 2009 (gmt 0)

But the fact remains was that there was more to building IE into the operating system than merely depriving Netscape of the chance to profit from a knockoff of the Mosaic browser that was developed with federal funding at the University of Illinois.

Ummm.... IE was also a knockoff of Mosaic and Microsoft was most certainly profiting from their tight integration of IE into Windows.