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Re:Why Microsoft really patched XP by nivla on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @12:53PM (#7705614)
>The other thing that killed NetScape Communicator is that it had been costing $70 per copy. Remember... people used to pay for browsers.

Yes but mine came free with the ISP's installation floppy diskettes, which was very cool of them. If I remember correctly, wasn't Opera initially a paid browser too?

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Re:Why Microsoft really patched XP by DanBC on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @01:54PM (#7706030)
Opera had paid versions, then ad supported versions.
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Re:Why Microsoft really patched XP by bcbrown on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @01:44PM (#7705978)
Yeah, I actually paid for it back in the day.
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