Re: Did Netscape ever charge $ for Navigator?

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 Cor****ation 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 cor****ate or
business use, and then reneg on that intention just 2 or 3 months
later?