I visited Andreessen at the Loudcloud offices the following week and noted the irony of his new alliance with his former tormentor. With a smile, he recited a line from The Godfather. It wasn't personal, he said. It's just business. Loudcloud is a natural ally in the new Microsoft vision of computing.
Bygones are bygones, or something like that.
Andreessen did acknowledge some satisfaction in the outcome of Microsoft's antitrust trial - largely, he said, because the world discovered the kind of tactics Microsoft had used in going after Netscape. But that was then, and this is now. I can't decide if this is a healthy attitude or something less noble. Maybe it's a little of each. Maybe it's internal co-opetition.