Let it not be forget that Andresson left Champaign-Urbana without the source code for Mosaic (unless Jim Barksdale sent him off for intensive memory training, maybe) and clean roomed it into the Netscape Browser, creating the first unicorn 🦄 of the Internet Age and getting his grubstake. So, it wasn’t intellectual property theft, rather just an ordinary ripoff. Of a land grant university funded by the State of Illinois and support by the US government. By one of its graduate students. Who might have had a stipend that supported him when he was working on Mosaic. Reminds me of the joke about the libertarian complaining that he couldn’t jump the triage queue at the ER by just using his Platinum card.
Little known fact: the magnus.conf file for http/https servers is named for the UI server that hosted the backend that Mosaic sent its requests to.
"And now, following a well-trod path, Marc Andreessen has become the newest version of that tired cliché, the Silicon Valley techno-libertarian who has found all the answers to everything and now feels compelled to share them with us."
I hope you're getting some royalties from Andreessen's Monty Meekman turn!
A book has a beginning and an end, in the sense that the text has a first page and a last page, but there is no requirement whatsoever that the STORY so embodied must be so linear.
Let it not be forget that Andresson left Champaign-Urbana without the source code for Mosaic (unless Jim Barksdale sent him off for intensive memory training, maybe) and clean roomed it into the Netscape Browser, creating the first unicorn 🦄 of the Internet Age and getting his grubstake. So, it wasn’t intellectual property theft, rather just an ordinary ripoff. Of a land grant university funded by the State of Illinois and support by the US government. By one of its graduate students. Who might have had a stipend that supported him when he was working on Mosaic. Reminds me of the joke about the libertarian complaining that he couldn’t jump the triage queue at the ER by just using his Platinum card.
Little known fact: the magnus.conf file for http/https servers is named for the UI server that hosted the backend that Mosaic sent its requests to.
Also the Odyssey quote is from the excellent Emily Wilson vernacular blank verse translation:
Tell me about a complicated man.
Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost
when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy,
and where he went, and who he met, the pain
he suffered in the storms at sea, and how
he worked to save his life and bring his men
back home. He failed to keep them safe; poor fools,
they ate the Sun God’s cattle, and the god
kept them from home. Now goddess, child of Zeus,
tell the old story for our modern times.
Find the beginning.
"And now, following a well-trod path, Marc Andreessen has become the newest version of that tired cliché, the Silicon Valley techno-libertarian who has found all the answers to everything and now feels compelled to share them with us."
I hope you're getting some royalties from Andreessen's Monty Meekman turn!
Of course you have no idea what they’re talking about: you haven’t read the book. Read the book!
I love the repurposing of quotes. Such great fun.
This is the best I've got. Maybe someone can improve it:
A screaming comes acros the sky. Votes have happened before,
but there is nothing to compare it to now.
It is too late. The vote still proceeds, but it's all
theatre. There are no hopes inside the room. No light anywhere. Above
them lift girders old as an iron queen, and glass somewhere far above
that would let the light of day through. But it's night. They're afraid of
the way the republic will fall -- soon -- it will be a spectacle: the fall of a
crystal palace. But coming down in total blackout, without one glint
of light, only great invisible crashing.
A book has a beginning and an end, in the sense that the text has a first page and a last page, but there is no requirement whatsoever that the STORY so embodied must be so linear.