From: moz.champion@sympatico.ca   
      
   Leonidas Jones wrote:   
   > Netscape Guy wrote:   
   >> Full-Quoter Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> 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?   
   >>> Why are YOU keep harping about it?   
   >>   
   >> Why not?   
   >>   
   >>> People have told you, and you won't end it.   
   >>   
   >> What have they said?   
   >>   
   >> They said that Navigator was intially a paid product, then it went   
   >> free.   
   >>   
   >> I said no - according to a Netscape press release it was supposed to   
   >> be free from the start.   
   >>   
   >> Well Postumus?   
   >>   
   >> Was it initially free?   
   >   
   > Everybody has told you. There is nothing else to be said here. The   
   > information you received at the UFAQ is all you are going to get.   
   >   
   > Give it a rest, and get a life!   
   >   
   > Lee   
      
   You can go out on the web right now and find things 'for free' that most   
   people have to pay for. For example, I can find the latest verssion of   
   Apple's OS X, that (given certain conditions) I can download and use...   
   free.   
      
   I don't meet those conditions tho.   
      
      
   If you take the time to read the announcement you are going on about,   
   you will note that the offer for 'free' has some conditions.   
      
   READ THIS   
   > MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (October 13, 1994) -- Netscape Communications   
   > Corporation today announced that it is offering its newly introduced   
   > Netscape(TM) network navigator free to users via the Internet. The new   
   > Internet navigator, developed by the six-month-old Silicon Valley   
   > company led by Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark and NCSA Mosaic   
   > creator Marc Andreessen, is available immediately for free downloading   
   > by individual, academic and research users.   
      
   Note how it says individual, academic and research users.   
      
   The offer at that point was limited to academic and research users on an   
   individual basis.   
      
   Obviously, you sir are quite limited in your comprehension of the   
   written word.   
      
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