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- From: "Thomas A. Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
- To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: more subjective history question
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:58:51 -0500
Steven Champeon wrote:
> Read this:
> http://www.unionrecord.com/biz/display.php?ID=1785
> I don't agree entirely, but he makes an interesting - if not
> rock-solid - case for the idea that Microsoft destroyed everyone's
> chances of making a dime on the Internet by giving away the browser.
> Not just Netscape. I think the author forgets that Netscape gave away
> the browser first, then revised their plan to mean "free for
> educational and non-commercial use". I remember the uproar about that.
> But anyway. I dunno, just throwing gas on the fire.
Hmmn, yeah. The idea of giving away the broswer in order to make a
market for the servers seems like a fundamentally sound one -- if you're
Netscape. But lots of good arguments there against such a model.
OTOH, I rarely paid for software even before the Internet. More
frequently, I got it passed along on disk from friends. WordPerfect, I
paid for that. Not much else. To me, Microsoft did not create the
notion that "information wants to be free".
TaB
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more subjective history question,
Thomas A. Beckett, 01/19/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: more subjective history question, Steven Champeon, 01/19/2001
- Re: more subjective history question, Paul Jones, 01/19/2001
- Re: more subjective history question, Josep LluĂs Guallar Esteve, 01/19/2001
- Re: more subjective history question, Thomas A. Beckett, 01/19/2001
- Re: more subjective history question, jcuthrell, 01/23/2001
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