From: moz.champion@sympatico.ca   
      
   Netscape Guy wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
      
   You weren't there were you? I was.   
   That offer was restricted to individuals in the academic and research   
   fields.   
      
      
   It did not apply to all users, and all future editions of Netscape   
   products in any case.   
      
   As stated innumerable times, Netscape continued to charge for its   
   products right up to the fall of 1997 and Communicator 4.0.4   
      
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