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Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by xp84 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:31AM (#36877390)
MSIE was free, 28 years ago in late 1995, and while Netscape did take 5 years to follow suit, by 1998 Netscape was not in a healthy position because of the free competition.
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Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by scarface_74 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:39AM (#36877504)
And to a first approximation. No one paid for Netscape then. I first downloaded it free in 1996 from their ftp server.
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