Re: NETSCAPE: free browser, free source

Max M (maxm@novavision.dk)
Fri, 23 Jan 1998 01:07:42 +0100


Steve Pruitt wrote:

> > This takes cujones. I shurely hope that that they will succed. If they
> > do, it could change how software is developed for good.

> Actually, I think it takes desperation.

We don't agree on this. Off course they are hard pressed by Microsoft.
But I think that somebody at Netscape understands netwoerk economy, and
has read:

The Cathedral and the Bazaar
by Eric S. Raymond
http://www.ccil.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-paper.html

They could very well beat MS this way.

Hilsen / Regards
Max M Rasmussen

New Media Director

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