From: Netscape@Guy.com   
      
   Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:   
      
   > > I want to know why you and others are so reluctant to avoid   
   > > talking about Netscape's October 1994 press release where   
   > > they stated that it would be their policy to make Netscape   
   > > available at no cost.   
   >   
   > why are you so hung up on a dead issue?   
      
   Why are you so hung up on trying to make it go away?   
      
   Don't you realize you're just drawing more attention to it?   
      
   > We've told you what you need to know: at one point Netscape   
   > was a paid product.  Then it became a free product.  The End.   
      
   No, you're missing something.   
      
   Initially it was free.  Then it became a paid product.  Then it became   
   free again.   
      
   > Why do you keep asking? It happened over 10 years ago. Its over.   
      
   Lots of things are over - but people still talk about them.   
      
   If you don't want too, then don't.   
      
   If you want to make the case that Netscape's policy re: Navigator was   
   straight-forward, then do so.   
      
   I'm making the case that it was not straight-forward on the basis of   
   their first press release.   
      
   Why don't you just come out and say:   
      
    "Jeeze, it sure looks like they did a complete about-face   
     by saying at the very outset that they'd make Navigator   
     available for free and then a short time later they   
     start charging for it."   
      
   Is that such a hard thing to admit?   
      
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