Re: Did Netscape ever charge $ for Navigator?

Netscape Guy wrote:
> 
> 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?

no, you don't understand.  Why are YOU keep harping about 
it? People have told you, and you won't end it.  Whats the 
big deal? You're the one that won't end it.

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