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To: Shane Stump who wrote (25887)	5/8/1998 6:47:00 PM
From: Maxer	Respond to of 97611

>>Netscape's giving away their browser in the beginning that stopped most of the other little companies that were developing browsers<< This might be, I always figured that Netscape was making the money on their server software which at that time ('94?) cost $5k. At first they were the only ones with a secure server, except for the mac which no one used. This was before NT could make it through the day without crashing. I think many ISP's used the free Apachy software, some kind of customized unix. Most still use it I believe. I got nothing against either Netscape or MSFT giving their brouser away. But you gotta understand that giving away the source code is a higher level of giving it away. In a way it's making the program public domain.