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[Netscape products] would turn Windows 95, for example, into just a mundane collection of not entirely debugged device drivers.

— Marc Andreessen Disputed

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Wikiquote notes doubts about whether Marc Andreessen really said this.

Source: From Metcalfe, Bob; "Without case of vapors, Netscape's tools will give Blackbird reason to squawk" Infoworld (September 18, 1995). Andreessen disputed the quotation in 2012, attributing it back to Metcalfe.
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