Re: Did Netscape ever charge $ for Navigator?

Netscape Guy wrote:
> ----------
> http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease1.html
> 
> NETSCAPE COMMUNICATIONS NOW, BUILDS ON TRADITION OF FREEWARE FOR THE
> NET
> 
> MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (October 13, 1994) -- Netscape Communications
> Cor****ation 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.
> -----------
> 
> "Moz Champion (Dan)" wrote:
> 
>> Both Netscape and Microsoft charged users in 1995, Netscape
>> continued this until late 1997
> 
> How can you say that, when Netscape released the above press release
> in October 1994 stating that they were making Navigator "free to users
> via te Internet" ???
> 
> Why can't you (and others) directly address the existance of that
> press release and expain it in terms of Netscape's history of charging
> for Navigator?
> 
>> Both Netscape and Microsoft charged users in 1995, 
> 
> The Wikipedia entry for IE does not mention that Microsoft ever
> charged money for IE.

I don't know why your so hung up on a dead issue.  It's over 
10 years old, and you won't let it die.  We've all said 
Netscape was a paid for product, and then they gave it away 
for free: http://www.mozilla.org/free-faq.html

I wonder if this is you: 
http://www.ufaq.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=28425

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