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		ja27 on Feb 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of? Starting a company to make a paid browser when Mosaic is already free.

kstenerud on Feb 25, 2015 [–]

Free and pretty crappy & limited. When you can do better than the free crappy shit, people will pay. It was the same with Athena vs Motif.

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