Re: Designing Lisp from scratch

 
 
Based on entries I found at Wikipedia, the code that survives is not the  
same one that was originally released by Netscape.  The open source  community 
didn't like the code Netscape released, and they started from  scratch.

Though some incarnation of Netscape-inspired source code has  survived, 
Netscape itself hasn't (at least not as a web-browsing company).   Mozilla 
(Firefox) has it's many users.  However, I'm not sure who, if  anybody, benefits 
financially from it.  Zawinski, the Netscape programmer  who was largely behind the 
push for open source, probably doesn't.  His  current occupation is now 
outside the field of computers.  He appears to  have been soured by the way things 
turned out after going open  source.

In my case with uCalc Language Builder, I want the software  to survive, but 
I myself want to survive as well.  And I want to have fun  doing it.  :-).

Daniel Corbier
uCalc Language Builder
_www.ucalc.com_ (http://www.ucalc.com) 


In a message dated 3/26/07 4:53:21 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
[email protected] writes:

Hmm,  that's not my interpretation of events. The way I see it, Netscape 
was  killed by Microsoft shipping competing software with the dominant  
operating system. Rather than killing the company, releasing the source  
code is what made the software survive. This is probably exactly the  
reason why people here have been pushing you to set conditions for you  
releasing your source code: to prevent the product from being  lost.

Regards,

Bob







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