Was it in Slashdot proper or was it in TacoHell? I feel like I read the same ancient post.

On an only tangentially-related note, one of my favorite comments ever was this one:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=30833&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=3313595

I wonder if there's an inverse correlation between a post's average UID and average IQ?

I got that one today, too. Dammit!

I seem to recall that it wasn't bundling the browser so much as dictating what the computer distributors could do. Microsoft did a Darth Vader vs. Lando Calrissian ("But we had a deal!" "I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.") with the license distribution arrangements they had with vendors like Dell. The vendors were allowed to install a bunch of crapware in their standard Windows distributions that come on the hard drives of new PCs, but they were forbidden to pre-install Netscape, thus cutting off Netscape's air supply. MS threatened to unilaterally change the terms of the license distribution if the vendor installed Netscape. This was an abuse of Microsoft's monopoly power, as the PC vendors had no choice but to do what MS said, since there was no way for the vendors to compete with other PC makers if they couldn't pre-install Windows.

This is possibly covered in the article, but I haven't got around to reading it yet.

I submitted a story that was posted, and didn't get the achievement:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/04/09/1342256

Yeah, almost 10 years ago! Maybe they didn't go back that far for the achievements, heh heh.

Yep, I thought that too. Now I'm posting in this one to try to get the achievement.

I feel so... used.

I'm only doing this for the achievement myself.