Star McBride: "Linux Is a Copy of UNIX"
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st May 2008 19:41 UTC
Law and Order Speaking of soap operas, there's one soap opera in the technology world that has been going on for so long that nobody really seems to know why it was ever started, whatever all the different moves have been over the years, or whoever lost or won which battle. Just like a true soap opera, you can just jump right in the middle of it and feel like you've always been part of the regular audience. The SCO saga is such a case.
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RE[4]: Comment by kittynipples
by aesiamun on Thu 1st May 2008 22:24 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Comment by kittynipples"
aesiamun
Member since:
2005-06-29

Ouch...IE innovative?

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MamiyaOtaru Member since:
2005-11-11

I wondered if he wasn't implying the opposite.. hard to tell as Netscape used some NCSA Mosaic code while Internet Explorer used some Spyglass Mosaic code.

EDIT should have read the other pages. Seems this has been addressed already ;)

Edited 2008-05-02 15:32 UTC

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aesiamun Member since:
2005-06-29

Mark Andreessen co wrote Mosaic and he then co founded netscape. I'm fairly certain that netscape is based on the original Mosaic Communicator...or is the original mosaic communicator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Communications_Corporation#Ea...

Specifically:
'The Mosaic Netscape web browser utilized some NCSA Mosaic code with NCSA's permission, as noted in the application's "About" dialog box. '

Edited 2008-05-02 15:49 UTC

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google_ninja Member since:
2006-02-05

To be fair, the X in ajax came from ie, inner/outerHTML came from ie, element.style.cssProp syntax came from ie.

IE was innovative once upon a time, it just hasn't been for close to a decade or so

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