Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
> Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
>> Netscape Guy wrote:
>>> Full Quoter "Moz Champion (Dan)" wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Here is a Netscape announcement about the relesase of Navigator
>>>>> 1.0 AND a price list!
>>>>>
>>>>> http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1995q1/0010.html
>>> You full-quoting bone head.
>>>
>>> I've refered to the same pr in my previous posts, and I never disputed
>>> that Netscape always intended to charge _SOME_ entities for Navigator.
>>>
>>> You didn't have to do crazy searches for Netscape PR's.
>>>
>>> They're all here:
>>>
>>> http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease3.html
>>>
>>> See the "3" in the above URL? Just change it to any number you want
>>> if you want to see all of their dozens of PR's.
>>>
>>> My point is that Netscape said in their very first press release in
>>> October 1994 that their intention was to make Navigator *FREELY
>>> AVAILABLE* to EVERYONE for non-cor****ate, non-business use.
>>>
>>> EVERYONE means home users, students, educators, researchers,
>>> non-profit organizations, etc. It *might* even mean public
>>> institutions like federal, state, and municiple gov't as well as
>>> military and hospital use (but that is an unrelated tangent).
>>>
>>> Do you disagree that Netscape said that in their first press release?
>>>
>>> Do you disagree that Netscape intended that home users were allowed to
>>> freely obtain and use Navigator (not just "evaluate" it) and that such
>>> obtainment and use was not time-limited nor limited to beta versions
>>> nor limited to the first full release version of Navigator?
>>
>>
>> Who cares what Netscape did or didnt say in their first press release.
>> You asked if Netscape charged for it's products, you got your answer,
>> it did, regardless of that press release.
>>
>> What you going to do now, sue them? Netscape is dead and gone.
>> Whatever they said, whatever they did, is stuff of the history books.
>>
>> Fact is, Netscape charged for it's products.
>
> Hey Dan, I'm surprised you're still answering him after he's called you
> a bone-head, a moron, an idiot, and other things.
>
> Just plonk this idiot. He just doesn't get it. He's just a bone-head
> of moron troll ;-) :-D
>
I've had very much the same "discussion" with him on another group.
This "dialog" is a waste of our time. Grant is right, lets move on.
Lee
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