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Re: NEtscape 6.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Lester)
Mon Oct 22 19:01:11 2001
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 08:01:51 -0600
From: Dan Lester <dan@RIVEROFDATA.COM>
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There is no question that someone has to pay for the browser.
However, IE and NS are NOT Adware. Opera has done the same as the
makers of Eudora and other excellent pieces of software; they've
provided an Adware version and a Paid version. You pay your money (or
don't) and take your choice. But, Microsoft doesn't need to do that,
as IE is part of Windows. They do let you upgrade the browser at no
added cost. Netscape also is available free. They tried the paid
route years ago and dropped it. As far as the funding of NS goes,
I'll leave that to others. But, being part of the AOL empire, I'm
guessing that they're hoping you'll come over to that service. Both
browsers do default you to their company's services, home page, and so
forth, but that doesn't constitute advertising as far as I'm
concerned.
dan
Saturday, October 20, 2001, 4:35:20 AM, you wrote:
>> I'm still not convinced of any causality there. It may be that some
>> of the ads use features that aren't present in IE5.0 but are in IE6.0.
>> It is common to notice such differences between Netscape and IE, as
>> each supports different sets of HTML tags/code/options.
RH> Someone has to pay for a browser. Opera, which is reputed to be much faster
RH> than either of the two leading browsers, (http://www.opera.com ) makes this
RH> very plain. You can obtain a free version of the brownser. But you must put
RH> up with advertising. Or you can pay for a version and only get the adverts
RH> that appear on the sites that you visit. Seems fair to me.
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