[1215] in java-interest
Re: Stop the insanity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Rubenstein)
Sat Aug 26 01:31:04 1995
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 22:00:32 -0400
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: ruby@name.net (Matthew Rubenstein)
"6 months from now, no one will get paid to write HTML, because HTML
editors will make it so easy that any idiot will be able to do it."
- Somebody
"6 months from now, no one will get paid to produce digital
layout/retouching, because Quark and Adobe will make it so easy that any
idiot will be able to do it."
- Somebody else
>> EOLAS ACQUIRES COMMERCIAL RIGHTS TO KEY WORLD WIDE WEB PATENT
>
>Here's an excellent use for some of Netscape's newfound riches: stomp on
>this patent ASAP. I just hope they make enough noise in the process to
>make Congress notice. (I also hope they don't decide to buy the patent
>rights and use their riches to _defend_ it! What a nightmare!)
Imagine browsing a proprietary Netscape WWW, viewing proprietary
Unisys GIFs on my proprietary IBM PC - that'll never happen, because all of
that Multimedia(TM) technology is owned by Compton's!
--
Matthew Rubenstein North American Media Engines
Toronto, Ontario *finger matt for public key* (416)943-1010
Any technology, sufficiently advanced,
is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
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