Re: Did Netscape ever charge $ for Navigator?

Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:

> > I want to know why you and others are so reluctant to avoid
> > talking about Netscape's October 1994 press release where
> > they stated that it would be their policy to make Netscape
> > available at no cost.
> 
> why are you so hung up on a dead issue? 

Why are you so hung up on trying to make it go away?

Don't you realize you're just drawing more attention to it?

> We've told you what you need to know: at one point Netscape
> was a paid product.  Then it became a free product.  The End.

No, you're missing something.

Initially it was free.  Then it became a paid product.  Then it became
free again.

> Why do you keep asking? It happened over 10 years ago. Its over.

Lots of things are over - but people still talk about them.

If you don't want too, then don't.

If you want to make the case that Netscape's policy re: Navigator was
straight-forward, then do so.

I'm making the case that it was not straight-forward on the basis of
their first press release.

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?