<H5>Subject:       Re: Spyglass/NCSA agreement From: "Nate Zelnick" <natez@pluto.njcc.com> Date:          Mon, 1 May 1995 06:33:49 +0000</H5>
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From: "Nate Zelnick" <natez@pluto.njcc.com>
Date:          Mon, 1 May 1995 06:33:49 +0000
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On  Mon, 1 May 1995  Joe Shea <joeshea@netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> 	This agreement doesn't seem like a "farce" at all, to me.  
> Instead of abandoning everyone with Mosaic to a future of obsolete 
> features, it provides for steady development of both free and commercial 
> versions.  There's no better option, IMHO.

You misunderstand.  The farce is not the agreement--which was fine in 
principle--the farce is that the "enhanced" Mosaic from Spyglass now 
lags by several generations the "free, with copyright" version 
available from NCSA.  I think that's great because Netscape--for all 
intents and purposes free--now faces a reasonable competitor that 
*is* free and the result can only be aggressively developing 
technology as the commercial companies fight for mindshare.  Go, boys 
and girls, go!

Here's the text from Spyglass' press release again:

"NCSA will continue to offer a public-with-copyright version of Mosaic
over  the Internet, which individuals can download for free.
As part of its agreement with NCSA, Spyglass will provide a number
                                                             ^^^^^^^
of its improvements to NCSA for incorporation back into the
                                 ^^^^^^^^
public-with-copyright version. "

<emphasis added to show direction of technology transfer>

Nate Zelnick                          natez@pluto.njcc.com
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