Word: licensee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Microsoft had been dogging Netscape almost from Day One. In early 1994, according to Jim Clark, the maverick Stanford professor who co-founded the company, Microsoft wanted to license Netscape's code for $1 million. But Clark sent word that he wasn't "even remotely interested."
Perhaps if Netscape had agreed to license its code, the company would be in better shape today. But probably not. Microsoft ended up doing the deal with an outfit called Spyglass, whose code became the core of Internet Explorer. Spyglass has since left the PC browser business and is selling...
Answering those questions is clearly a job for Father Lorenzo Quart, ace trouble-shooter at the Vatican's cloak-and-dagger Institute of External Affairs. Although lacking Agent 007's license to kill, Quart is distinctly Bondish: tall, cool, impeccably clad and cursed with dreamboat looks that fluster women into...
At issue, of course, is the line between what Bill Gates can and cannot legally do with Windows, his de facto operating-system monopoly. Klein's team has spent the past year amassing what the DOJ clearly considers persuasive evidence that the software giant's behavior--from restrictive licensing arrangements...
Jim and Joanne McAvoy of Alexandria, Va., traded in 130,000 Club Rewards points to give their son Michael, 13, a unique birthday present. In August he will take part in a special five-day space-camp program sponsored by NASA. At one point, he will be put behind the...