- From: Joerg Rhiemeier <rhiemeir@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 11:57:06 +0200
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
Thomas Mohr <mohr@lts.sel.alcatel.de> wrote: [...] >This is interesting. As far as I know, NCSA does not consider >NCSA Mosaic code as free (they have signed a contract with >Spyglass). Actually, the situation has become MUCH worse than that: Spyglass have sold the code to MICRO$OFT. Guess what they'll do about NCSA Mosaic as soon as they have MS Mosaic out! Currently, NCSA shells out betas for evaluation purposes (as Netscape does), but I assume that MS will stomp that out VERY quickly. The last free version of NCSA Mosaic was 2.4, which was released before they sold their code to Spyglass. There are some improved versions coming from places like Tuebingen University which are based on NCSA Mosaic 2.4, but I fear Micro$oft's law department will find a way to illegalize these versions as well. OK, let's talk about HTML again. ~~o~~|--------------------------------------------------|~~o~~ ~/V\~| Joerg Rhiemeier, roleplayer and prog.rock maniac |~/V\~ ~~H~~| Don't jump bungee -- swim with a trenchcoat ! |~~H~~ ~/_\~|--------------------------------------------------|~/_\~
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