“We get a lot of interest from the investment community just because people are curious.”
Andrew Beebe, founder of the unduly secretive Springfield Project, on his non-disclosure agreement with the whole industry, Wired News, 25 November 1998
“We get a lot of interest from the investment community just because people are curious.”
Andrew Beebe, founder of the unduly secretive Springfield Project, on his non-disclosure agreement with the whole industry, Wired News, 25 November 1998
“Mozilla.org is not Netscape. And it is not now, nor will it ever be, AOL.”
Jamie Zawinski, hacker-in-chief and spirit guide of the Mozilla Organization, on the Netscape-AOL merger’s effect on the open-source browser project, Mozilla.org, 23 November 1998
“You spend a lot of money building the best store you can. Then you need customers.”
Bob Saltzman, VP of strategic development at CDnow, delivering a heretofore unknown secret of e-commerce, Wired News, 23 November 1998
“Look, at some point, you have to put business interests over personal ones. Getting to No. 1 was going to be a very hard thing to do on our own.”
An unnamed Netscape executive, no doubt one of many “close to discussions” on selling the company to America Online, The Wall Street Journal, 22 November 1998
“It’s almost impossible to make a name for yourself on the Internet unless you do something scandalous like Matt Drudge.”
Novelist Tom Wolfe, on the impossibility of young auteurs rising above Net noise, The Washington Post, 16 November 1998
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