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To: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9 who wrote (1408)	4/17/1998 11:03:00 AM
From: Winter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3183

Not trying to change the subject, but I did have a thought about net stocks that derive their revenue from ads. Most people don't like the ads - the take time to load and are distracting. Now that Netscape has published their source code, what is to stop someone from creating a modified version of a browser that does not display ads? I imagine such a browser would be very popular & if the change could be made as an add-in or patch for existing netscape users probably even more people would use it. Come to think of it, if I wrote such a patch and then gave DoubleClick a chance to buy it from me to keep me from releasing it as freeware, I wonder how much they would be willing to pay. Hmmmm....