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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>
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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] what was precursor to Apache?
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 10:04:47PM +1000, Sandra Milne wrote:
> >Actually, Netscape Navigator used to be a non-free product (around $50-$100
> >US IIRC) and supplied a significant amount of Netscape's revenue. At the
> >time of the IE/Netscape debacle Netscape could provide its browser at no
> >cost to compete with MS as, by that time, the majority of Netscape's revenue
> >came from server products. By the time Netscape won a pyrrhic victory over
> >MS, the writing was on the walland Netscape was eventually sold to AOL. The
> >IT industry is like astronomy...the brightest metors mostly only burn for a
> >short while.
> 
> I remember downloading Netscape version 1.0 for windows 3.1 -- didn't cost 
> me a cent. Are you sure it wasn't called something else previously? I do 
> recall you could buy it in stores, but it was also available for free download.

That's true. Netscape Navigator was free for educational and private
use, but if you used it in a company you were supposed to pay for
it. I recall that Philips Electronics had a site license for it
via their Corperate Internet Services.

Edwin
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