AOL/Netscape has filed a civil suit against Microsoft following its crushing defeat in the browser wars. One of the ironies, of course, is that AOL helped Microsoft to victory by adopting Internet Explorer as its default browser. Another is that Microsoft didn't need to behave illegally to win, considering Netscape's strategy was incompetent, its behaviour was appalling, and its code was rubbish.("Until recently, Netscape was one of he most arrogant companies in Silicon Valley history, which is saying quite a lot.The consensus of almost every company that tried to deal with Netscape was that it was unsufferably unpleasant and unhelpful." High Stakes, No Prisoners by Charles Ferguson, p289.)