12 Oct
2004
12 Oct
'04
19:40
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Gordon Keehn wrote:
The following (for what it's worth) is clipped directly from the Help/About box for IE v6:
Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Distributed under a licensing agreement with Spyglass, Inc.
Microsoft may have stolen it, but at least they acknowledge the theft.
iirc, they licensed it for a percentage of the revenue. spyglass was all excited about this because it was ms and they could expect it to sell a lot of copies. then ms gave it away.. 10% (random percent as i don't know all the details) of 0 is still 0.. spyglass got nothing.. -- trey