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As bad as Netscape 4 was, what killed the company was their decision to charge for the browser while their monopolitic competidor was giving it away for free.
by zorked 14y ago
As bad as Netscape 4 was, what killed the company was their decision to charge for the browser while their monopolitic competidor was giving it away for free.
- yuhong 14y agoActually the competitor deliberately did it in order to kill Netscape's business model. This also affected Opera too.
- tedunangst 14y agoWhen a competitor undercuts your pricing with free, not doing anything for three years is unlikely to be the optimal response...
- segmond 14y agohow was netscape to survive back then? making money from ads was not in. microsoft had plenty of other ways to earn money. would you write millions of lines of code and give it away for free?