Comment Pardon my ignorance... (Score 1) 226
This is my first post here, so if this comes out looking funny...tough. :)
Anyway, here's my question: Do these companies really make a lot of money doing this?
Obviously there's some money to be made in licensing and advertisements...but can it really be that much, when the vast majority of the users of your main product (i.e. average schmoes, such as myself) acquire it for free?
Now, I loved using Netscape through the years (except for 6, that crashed just too often), ever since I downloaded version 1.2 from my university's computer lab. But for all the time I've spent using their products, they've never seen a dime from me.
So, what am I missing? How do Netscape and the others make all this money (or, how does Microsoft make even MORE money) that must obviously be the catalyst to these famous browser wars?
Enlighten me...
-MeridianChild
Anyway, here's my question: Do these companies really make a lot of money doing this?
Obviously there's some money to be made in licensing and advertisements...but can it really be that much, when the vast majority of the users of your main product (i.e. average schmoes, such as myself) acquire it for free?
Now, I loved using Netscape through the years (except for 6, that crashed just too often), ever since I downloaded version 1.2 from my university's computer lab. But for all the time I've spent using their products, they've never seen a dime from me.
So, what am I missing? How do Netscape and the others make all this money (or, how does Microsoft make even MORE money) that must obviously be the catalyst to these famous browser wars?
Enlighten me...
-MeridianChild
