Personal use was free. Netscape intended for businesses to pay for the browser. Both the older Mosaic browser and Netscape Navigator were free for non-commercial use in 1994. Free browsers were the norm before the Browser Wars of 1995 kicked off with MS releasing Internet Explorer 1.0.
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>People were paying for browsers. It was the norm before Microsoft gave away Internet Explorer for free,
No, not really. Most people paid $0 for web browsers even in the early Netscape's days in October 1994. That was Netscape's deliberate intention and was stated in their press release: https://web.archive.org/web/20061207145832/http://wp.netscap...
Personal use was free. Netscape intended for businesses to pay for the browser. Both the older Mosaic browser and Netscape Navigator were free for non-commercial use in 1994. Free browsers were the norm before the Browser Wars of 1995 kicked off with MS releasing Internet Explorer 1.0.