29 Dec
1998
29 Dec
'98
6:49 p.m.
Once upon a midnight dreary, Jason Willgruber had spoken clearly:
Last time I checked on it, Netscrape Communicator was
somewhere around $45
in the stores,
But *free* to download from the web. To purchase IE *all by itself* costs
money, too. They can't print books / cd's, etc. for free.
Netscrape came with the program that I bought, and it
was a stripped version
that kept wanting me to sent $30 to Netscrape, and it stopped working after
6 months (date stamped).
Netscape has not *always* been free. It was turned into free software in
(IIRC) October or November of '97. Since then, if you got a stripped
version, you *asked* for it (to save space) and all date-disabled versions
of the software disappeared.
You can still download Version 2.02, 3.04 and 4.0x from their archive site
- it's not fast, but it's now free, and has been for the last 14 months or so.
Let's see...IE only wanted me to sign up with
MSN
once, and that was because I used an MSN trial CD to install it.
Installed '98 lately? It's a lot more insistant with that OS. Especially if
you go under "Win 98 Setup" and uncheck the "Install MSN" there. *It
Doesn't Uninstall!*
If you ever noticed, When you got Netscrape on an AOL
CD,
it _really_ wants you to sign up for AOL AND pay $30 to them.
That's AOL... not Netscape. Don't blame the *browser* for the *content
provider's* greed.
Seems to me that I remember an old version of IE that
was for OS/2, too.
Can you still get it? --- They had a version that was supposed to run on
Linux, too. They almost got it out - 6 months or so behind schedule, then
they scrapped it. Pi$$ed off some users with that one... Billy-bob doesn't
care, tho.
Regards,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger