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From: Glenn Sills <si...@sills.mv.com>
Subject: Re: Cost of Netscape 1.0?
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Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 15:36:05 GMT
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> bro...@ics.com (David Brooks) wrote:
>
> David Silberberg <davi...@interaccess.com> writes:
> >Hasn't a representative of Mcom / Netscape said that Netscape 1.0 will be free
> >to personal users for "evaluation purposes" as long as we want?  Doesn't this
> >mean, in effect, that we personal users can use it for free forever?  Even
> >considering the ambiguities and perhaps wording problems with the license,
> >this seems rather clear to me.
> 
> It seems thoroughly disingenuous to me.
> 
> You missed out the important qualifier:  "...for the purpose of evaluating
> whether to purchase an ongoing license to the Software."  I couldn't, in
> all honesty, claim I can take "forever" to make such a decision.

No problem.  Don't use Netscape.  Next thread......

glenn