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University of Illinois threatened Netscape's prospective sales clients with lawsuits
“And so instead of suing us, what they did instead was they called Spyglass, any situation we were in where we were competing with Spyglass for a sale they, the University of Illinois administrators would call the customer and tell them that they were going to …”
Marc Andreessen Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 1:43:11 Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
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Andreessen: Microsoft licensed Spyglass Mosaic for a $1 million flat fee
“Spyglass gets this call from Microsoft and so the Microsoft guys call Spyglass, and they're like, yeah, we want to license Spyglass Mosaic so we can build it into Windows, and the Spyglass guys say, you know, yeah, that sounds great, you know, basically how mu…”
Marc Andreessen Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 1:52:23 Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
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