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Netscape was "free for educational use" and anyone could download it free of charge. According to one old hand at Netscape (JWZ? Eich?) they checked their serve
by bbanyc 7y ago
Netscape was "free for educational use" and anyone could download it free of charge. According to one old hand at Netscape (JWZ? Eich?) they checked their server logs for which corporate IPs downloaded it most often and had their sales team contact the freeloading companies. I think they were also planning to sell licenses to ISPs and modem vendors for use as pack-in software.
Then MS released IE for free, no strings attached, and killed their business model overnight.
- vondur 7y agoYes, you are correct. IE was "built" into Windows, and Microsoft strong armed OEM's to not pre-installing it for fear of losing a Windows License. Downloading Netscape was a lot different when most people had only 56k Modems as their connection. Most people didn't bother and just stuck with the pre-installed IE.