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Eric Hahn, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Netscape, wrote me four days afterwards confirming: "On behalf of everyone at Netscape, I want to thank you for helping us get to this point in the first place. Your thinking and writings were fundamental inspirations to our decision."
The following week I flew out to Silicon Valley for a day-long strategy conference (on Feb 4 1998) with some of Netscape's top executives and technical people. We designed Netscape's source-release strategy and license together, and laid some more plans that we hope will eventually have far-reaching and positive impacts on the open source community.
While in the Valley I also consulted with Linus Torvalds and other leaders in the Linux community. We believe the time is ripe for a major push into the commercial world. We've got the technology; and now, after the Netscape announcement and with Netscape's active backing, we're getting visibility and credibility.
Media coverage is beginning to build. See this 4 Feb 98 story from the San Francisco Chronicle for an early sample.
Stay tuned. This story isn't over -- in fact, it's barely begun.
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