History (AOL, Netscape, the portal wars, et. al.) would suggest no, but remember when the smart money bailed on Apple and called it for dead.

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The tale of the browser wars between Microsoft (MSFT) and Netscape Communications nscp ( nscp) reads a lot like a history of the Western Front in World War I.

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Unfortunately for AMD, there is no good history of saving a product with lawsuits, as former Netscape executives can attest.

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Companies like SAS, with its twenty-year history, have grown much more slowly than pop-rocket startups who went public like Netscape and Yahoo!

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