Originally posted by qtiger
:rofl: Are you serious? Netscape used to be $49.99 at your local software outlet. That's what the big fuss monopoly fuss was about. Netscape practically went out of business because Internet Explorer was FREE built into operating system and also free to download.
the big fuss was that microsoft used unfair coding conventions to lock out competitors. Netscape was meant to be a free platform to support Java, Java was meant to be the basis of new operating systems taht would be licensed for use from Sun.