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 That is important. Someone wrote earlier about "avoiding being a member of a community. That's wrong. Being a member of a market is altogether different. Bob isn't the only one who had management that looked back and asked, "And pray tell, who will buy this?" That question was common across the market. STimbl didn't have a market either. He had a network and he had volunteers ready to work. The Mosaic browser was a pitiful thing but it worked across the network of networks that is the Internet (and that is not trivial) and no one had to cost-justify it. To the users who had no familiarity with what a modern hypermedia system was capable of, it looked obvious. It was obvious. Then the retrofitting of features and history began. Why weren't other browsers created that were better? Some were. They were SGML browsers yet the SGMLIsEvil meme was loud in the Internet amplifier. Anyone who ever did a round with the HTMLNutcases understood that between the priests, the assassins, and the desperate Canadian SGML companies, it would be a long time before the better systems came back. But when they did, the Americans would own their patents. :-) len From: Bob Wyman [mailto:bob@w...] The big problem I had in trying to bring my "Memex" system to market was that there was *no* market to sell into. 
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