[geeks] Flicker users u in arms over MS acquisition...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>Date: 2008/02/04 Mon AM 02:31:37 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Flicker users u in arms over MS acquisition...

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>More importantly than the demise of Yahoo, was the end of Netscape.
>I have seen many people commenting that it was their first web 
>browser. I remember when they were a for profit company that
>started business by raiding the NCSA Mosaic team, take a free
>resource and making it cost money.

I always had a problem understanding how Netscape made real money with thier 
product (I understand how they made money as a stock) - they had the most 
convoluted marketing for the browser that I've ever seen. Now that I think it 
through, I suppose they made real money by selling site licenses to large 
organizations and OS vendors, as well as from their server software, but 
taking something free and making money out of it is not unique (Apache, 
Sendmail, etc.) but they were among the first...


Lionel