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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Spyglass comes up

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▶ 4:04:30 Ben Gilbert To Gavin Baker from Atreides Management, to MG Siegler, writer at Spyglass.

▶ 25:47 David Rosenthal So, they license their Mosaic, the original one, to a local company called Spyglass.
▶ 25:55 Ben Gilbert So, the state of play is you've got the old Mosaic, which Spyglass has the right to license for commercial use.
▶ 26:16 Ben Gilbert And every time they find a customer, Spyglass, they threaten to sue.
▶ 26:40 Ben Gilbert They actually sue Spyglass.
▶ 28:07 David Rosenthal Spyglass, though, they start licensing that original mosaic, and they start doing deals with the online service providers, and a small startup company called Booklink goes and codes up another browser that they start licensing to companies…
▶ 29:12 David Rosenthal And Spyglass.
▶ 29:18 David Rosenthal Spyglass.
▶ 29:28 David Rosenthal Spyglass software for two million dollars, and that code base becomes the base upon which Microsoft builds Internet Explorer.
▶ 29:57 David Rosenthal A text box pops up that says, based on NCSA Mosaic, distributed under a licensing agreement with Spyglass Inc.
▶ 33:17 Ben Gilbert So, anyway, how does NCSA, Mosaic, and Spyglass come into this?
▶ 33:21 Ben Gilbert Well, the nuance is Spyglass had actually massively changed the Mosaic code.
▶ 33:26 Ben Gilbert They were trying to create the Spyglass browser that was sort of based on this NCSA code base, but it wasn't very good.
▶ 33:43 Ben Gilbert Gone, or at least not available for license, and so they sort of tried backing out a lot of the Spyglass stuff.

▶ 18:40 Brendan Eich Microsoft had simply killed Netscape by bundling IE, which it copied and sort of acquired pieces of through Spyglass.

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