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I thought Netscape used to charge for the browser - it was $35 if I recall correctly. Hence, MS was plotting to cut off their 'air supply' by giving away IE, re
by code_duck 15y ago
I thought Netscape used to charge for the browser - it was $35 if I recall correctly. Hence, MS was plotting to cut off their 'air supply' by giving away IE, removing NS's source of revenue.
- gaius 15y agoThey charged people who would want support, it was always free to people who didn't need/want it. My employer at the time spent 6-figures at a time on Netscape server products, for ourselves and our clients, we must have spent millions with them. Then version 3 came out and we either stuck to 2 or moved off Netscape platform entirely. And that was a big deal, since we had written loads of NSAPI code! But that's what killed Netscape.