Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...call to arms came to Silicon Valley last night. Some 36 hours had elapsed since Netscape Communications Corp. did the unimaginable -- release, for free, its coveted source code -- and throughout the Valley, geeks were celebrating as if crateloads of tea had been dumped into Boston Harbor. Sam Ockman, who was running last night's Silicon Valley Linux Users Group, introduced Marc Andreessen to the developers who thronged in to hear him. "I welcome you to our struggle for world domination, and I crown you General Andreessen," he said. "We will win the war -- because nobody expects open-source software...
Still, I'm working hard to keep an open mind, even after I get a call on Wednesday afternoon telling me about the clubs dress code. And, at 2:00 on Thursday (wearing my Bar Mitzvah best), I meet Jocelyn Simpson, the institution's surprisingly young and upbeat vice president, in the club's midtown lobby...
...this year, and if you plan well, they can bring bountiful tax savings. The changes are aimed directly at middle-class taxpayers with dependent children, offering a host of new ways to pay for education and salt away money for retirement. But there's plenty in the new code for others as well. Unfortunately, the laws are more complex than the math for a lunar landing...
...word deflation in serious discussions of U.S. prices for the first time in decades, as well as the possibility of a string of American budget surpluses unmatched since the Roaring Twenties--and the beginnings of a vigorous debate about whether this warrants a total overhaul of the U.S. tax code. In combination--or conflict--these forces make 1998 look anything but ho-hum and a lot more like the start of a journey into an unexplored world...
Zawinski and his co-workers had another idea: Don't give away just the Netscape browser, give away the source code too. This is like Coca-Cola's giving away free six-packs and the secret recipe as well, so you can make Coke at home. Here's the reasoning: Microsoft is so much bigger, and can throw so many programmers at any problem, that Netscape's only chance is to harness the talents of the thousands of hackers on the Net who might be willing to improve on the program if they had a stake in it. "I wouldn...