[5383] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: NCSA's un-free browser
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gavin Nicol)
Sat Aug 27 09:31:23 1994
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 1994 15:23:59 +0200
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From: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)
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While I'm not very happy about such licensing practices, I don't think
this is all that important because:
1) Mosaic isn't all that great. A large part of it's functionality is
built on top of the code from cern, which is still free. I hope to
see more and better browsers appear in the future. (This is an
honest opinion, not flame bait. )
2) Even if Mosaic moves out of the picture, the laws of social
dynamics will ensure that *something* will evolve to fill it's
place, just as it is evolving to fill a marketplace need. In some
ways, it will be better if Mosaic *is* removed from circulation,
because for many people, WWW equals Mosaic, which is simply not true.
How many ex-NSCA people are at Spyglass? This might be quite similar
to BSDI, though I suspect the potential for making money is *much*
larger... (and no, this is not a rub against BSDI either).
The older I get the more cynical I become...
