The Internet has made a religion of giving things away for free, and the faith grows ever stronger, yea, even in the face of the prophets of doom. Of course, that is a lesson Microsoft learnt at the feet of Netscape themselves, who first spread the web gospel across all the world via free versions of Navigator.
Free software is one thing, though.
It's quite another to offer free basic services across the Internet. Well, a company called Juno imagined just that, and offered the first entirely free e-mail service across the Web. Your only prerequisite was a Windows PC and existing Internet access. However, Juno's days in the place of glory are numbered, as dozens of disciples find religion in their own right. And, as is often the case with prophets of a new religion, at least as far as technology is concerned, those that found the road often fall behind those who find ways of making the road better.