29 Dec
1998
29 Dec
'98
1:18 a.m.
How is Netscape overpriced when it's free?
(Admittedly some of the
built-in links lead to adverts). IE is "free"? It is to laugh. It
only "runs" under 1.5 operating systems -- Windows and the new MacOS.
And it _really_ wants you to visit Microsoft and sign up for msn.com,
fuck, it insists on it. It took my wife most of an hour to _not_
sign up for msn, gods help anybody without competent advice, who
might have given in.
Last time I checked on it, Netscrape Communicator was somewhere around $45
in the stores, where IE was free with about 10 different programs.
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). 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. First time
I ran it, I simply went into the settings, set the start page as blank, and
Bingo! no MSN. 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.
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Seems to me that I remember an old version of IE that was for OS/2, too.
29 Dec
29 Dec
10:49 a.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
10:55 a.m.
>Seems to me that I remember an old version of IE
that was for OS/2, too.
I think you're confusing it with the browser called 'Web Explorer' which
was written at IBM and given away with their Internet Access Kit for OS/2
Warp.
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