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April 1, 2008

The Mosaic Communications Universe

Filed under: Fascinations — willwm @ 3:04 pm
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mcom Welcome

From jwz.livejournal.com:

  • Until now, home.mcom.com and all URLs under it just redirected to netscape.com, then redirected a dozen more times before taking you to some AOL portal page. The old URLs that were baked into the toolbar buttons of the original web browsers didn’t work any more. But now, if you fire up a copy of Mosaic Netscape 0.9, and click on the various toolbar buttons, they will work again! For example, in the old browsers, when you clicked on the “What’s New” toolbar button, it went here.
  • home.mcom.com is now a snapshot of that web site from 21-Oct-1994.

jwz: Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!

Filed under: Fascinations — willwm @ 2:47 pm
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Here’s a cool livejournal page from the famous ex-Netscape programmer Jamie Zawinski (jwz) about the tenth anniversary of the Mozilla project, which also includes instructions on how to get some old web browsers running on your system:

Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!

In honor of the ten year anniversary of the Mozilla project, home.mcom.com, the Internet Web Site of the Mosaic Communications Corporation, is now back online.

It took some doing. There is comedy.

(via jwz.livejournal.com)

Sony BMG accused of using pirated software

Filed under: Fascinations — willwm @ 1:42 pm
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From BetaNews.com:

Small French software developer PointDev is suing Sony BMG saying it uses pirated copies of PointDev’s Ideal Migration software.The application manages Windows domain consolidations and provides migration tools to move networks to Windows 2000 and 2003. Sony is being accused of using this software without a license.

Sony’s position smacks of irony, considering that it, along with other record labels have taken a hardline stance against piracy. Its offices were raided in January after PointDev obtained a search warrant from the courts.

In those raids, at least four servers were found with unlicensed copies of Ideal Migration on them. They were seized as evidence, which PointDev has used as a basis for its suit against the company.

“We are not interested in an amicable settlement. It is not just a question of money but more importantly in principle,” CEO Agustoni Paul-Henry said. He also implies that piracy may be a problem overall within the company.

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