Subj : Re: Russia's Endgame
To   : Nightfox
From : Tracker1
Date : Fri Oct 14 2022 20:03:08

On 10/12/22 21:57, Nightfox wrote:
 >
 > I remember a version of Netscape you could pay for.  But I also
 > remember Netscape being freely available for download on their
 > web site.  That's what I used..  I didn't use Mosaic.

IIRC, it was free for personal download/use but distribution (ISP) 
required licensing as did business use... they also relied heavily on 
their server software.  MS including both really cut into their business 
on both ends.  Windows non-server versions limited to 10 connections 
with IIS included in Server versions kind of sealed the deal.

Classic ASP being slightly better in a lot of ways didn't help... though 
the fact that most extensions (ASP COM Components) in the space being 
commercial (and costly) also pushed a lot of PHP adoption at the same time.

I'm frankly surprised that the stupid security mistakes from MS, such as 
outlook and outlook express rendering emails in unrestricted/local mode, 
didn't crush MS in litigation in the early 2000's from all the virus 
payloads.
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