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To: Paul Reuben who wrote (21123)	10/25/1998 1:18:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (3) of 24154

On Thursday, Warden argued that Netscape always intended to give its browser away and displayed as evidence two public Internet postings written in 1994 by Marc Andreessen, a Netscape co-founder and senior executive. One message, signed "Marc and the gang," stated that, "Mosaic Communications will release Mosaic Netscape 1.0, also available free for personal use via the Internet." Netscape initially was called Mosaic Communications. Perhaps it might be appropriate to find out what Netscape's sales people were being told in 1995-96 regarding the Company's policy on giving away the browser. Whatever the policy was with respect to the early versions of Mosaic/Navigator (0.9, 1.0), I seem to recall that, by the relevant time frame, 1995-96 (2.0, 3.0), the company was committed to selling its browser. I even recall at least one sales person who said he would quit if the company ever started giving its browser away. That does not strike me as being the reaction of someone who is being told by top management that the Company's policy is to give away the browser.

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