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Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by sbhn on Thursday June 07, 2018 @09:09AM (#17255416)
If you never paid, well that’s because you entered the scene after Microsoft’s commoditising effect of the browser market had taken effect. You now had a choice.
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Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by sergiosgc on Thursday June 07, 2018 @10:24AM (#17255975)
You've got your history wrong. Free browsers were always available. Mosaic first, Netscape and then Firefox, with plenty of other lower market share offerings. Microsoft didn't commoditize anything.
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Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by fourthark on Thursday June 07, 2018 @10:28PM (#17262091)
Netscape was basically shareware - it cost money, but hardly anyone paid for it.

Since shareware is kind of an alien concept these days, many people remember Netscape as "always free" but it was not really.

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Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by mishad on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @04:03PM (#17297448)
Many users would have obtained Navigator from ISP and magazine cover disks etc. So those copies would have been paid for as part of the price of the magazine or connection.
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