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Re: Didn't Netscape cost $300 for businesses?

IIRC Netscape was $30 for business, not $300. And it was commercial software at the time, not open source.

I think they believed making it free for personal use was enough for adoption, but Microsoft making IE free immediately made it the standard for business and killed Netscape's revenue model. The later bundling with Windows 98 completed Netscape's demise by taking away most of their consumer share too.

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