Subject: RE: Mosaic is Back! From: docdon@pinn.net (Don Taylor) Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 03:46:23 -0500

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At 04:03 PM 4/30/95 -0500, Jeremy Allaire wrote:
>
>I don't think this is the case.  Spyglass more or less liscensed the name,
not the code, though they do/did have access to the code.  Spyglass re-wrote
the entire application, deciding that the original Mosaic code was too slow
and buggy, etc.
>
>I don't think you'll see ANY of the innovations or capabilities used in
commercial Mosaic's.  The process of coordinating application development
and using or re-using code is far too complicated and costly.  I think
you'll see different products, all internally developed, by Spry/Spyglass, etc.
>
>The ironic thing is that when Mosaic went commercial (e.g. liscensed to
Spyglass), the Web community was in an uproar about how the freeware product
would be abandond which then forced Spyglass to promise to give their code
back to NCSA Mosaic.  So now we have NCSA Mosaic innovating well beyond what
the fools at Spyglass can even approach and folks asking for Mosaic back or
at least to have the functionality included in the commercial releases.  So
humorous.

Don't you think this will create some brand identity confusion and market
image problems for NCSA? Many users won't be smart enough to tell the
difference between NCSA Mosaic and Spry Mosaic. They'll just make either a
positive or negative statement along the lines of 

    "I use Mosaic and its a piece of {cake/crap depending on your viewpoint)."

Actually, I guess the benefits and detriments can go either way.

Tally Ho

    Don

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