From: Netscape@Guy.com   
      
   Full-Quoter "Moz Champion (Dan)" wrote:   
      
   > When Netscape originally offerred it for free, it was to   
   > individuals in research or academic fields.   
      
   Wrong.   
      
   Do you have a reading comprehension problem?   
      
     "Netscape Communications Corporation today announced that it   
      is offering its newly introduced Netscape(TM) network   
      navigator free to users via the Internet.   
      
      By making Netscape available free to individuals for personal   
      use, the company builds on the tradition of software products   
      for the Internet being offered free of charge.   
      
      Making Netscape freely available to Internet users is Netscape   
      Communications' way of contributing to the explosive growth of   
      innovative information applications on global networks,   
      
   Where in any of that do you get the idea that Netscape was intending   
   that educational users were the only ones earmarked for free use of   
   Navigator?   
      
   > So, as you have been told countless times, Netscape did charge   
   > for its browser, right up to the fall of 1997.   
      
   Why did they announce right at the very start that their intention was   
   to make it available for no charge to everyone outside of corporate or   
   business use, and then reneg on that intention just 2 or 3 months   
   later?   
      
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