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   Moz Champion (Dan) to Jose   
   Re: Did Netscape ever charge $ for Navig   
   26 Feb 08 06:13:54   
   
   From: moz.champion@sympatico.ca   
      
   Jose wrote:   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > Uh... no.  Look at the commas.   
   >   
   > It is limited to individual users, academic users, and research users.   
   >   
   > Individual users typically means "you and me, but not the twelve member   
   > company we own or work for".   
   >   
   > Don't confuse navigator (the browser) with the other component whose   
   > name escapes me (the server).  I think there was a point where they were   
   > charging for the server, but gave the browser away.   
   >   
   > Jose   
      
      
   Well fine, you decide what it said ten years down the road.   
      
      
   I LIVED through it, and was part of it. I KNOW that very few met those   
   conditions at the time of the offer.   
      
   So go ahead and argue all you want what you think, it doesn't matter in   
   the slightest. Most people paid for Netscape up to the fall of 1997,   
   that's a fact.   
      
   Obviously you weren't there, I was. But feel free to misinterpret,   
   somehow it suits you   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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