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Re: Netscape license

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Andreessen)
Thu Nov 24 05:20:06 1994

Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 11:11:40 +0100
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Reply-To: marca@neon.mcom.com
From: marca@neon.mcom.com (Marc Andreessen)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>

Our current intent is to do so, but absolutely do not consider that
to be a binding commitment.  I also will not guarantee that
the free and for-$$$ versions won't diverge at some point in the
future (almost certainly not for 1.0, though).  What happens post-1.0 
will mostly be determined by market and business factors over the next 
few years.

Free client distribution (again, for personal, educational, and research
use, roughly stated) is a core part of both the philosophy and the 
business model of the company, and has several very strong motivating 
reasons behind it, and we take it very seriously.

Cheers,
Marc


At 4:42 AM 11/24/94, Paul "S." Wain wrote:
>Marc wrote:
>@ We're absolutely committed to giving 1.0 away for personal use.
>@ Watch us.
>
>Marc.
>
>Could you expand on that. What about 1.1, 1.x, 2.x, x.x etc....
>I know this is looking a lot further ahead than you probably want to,
>but a small hint would be nice :)
>
>Paul
>
>.--------Paul Wain ( X.500 Project Engineer and WWW Person at Brunel)---------.
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Marc Andreessen
Netscape Communications Corporation
Mountain View, CA
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