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Re: [SLE] new v9.2 is out
- From: Trey Gruel <drathos-suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:40:22 -0400 (EDT)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410121535460.10354@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
> 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
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