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After that came a list of "begats." Napster begat Gnutella, which begat LimeWire and so on, until the world had (at last count) 176 brands of file-sharing software. But none quite caught the imagination as did their progenitor. They were too slow, or too hard to understand, or couldn't reach more than 40,000 users at the same time without using the same kind of centralized server that got Napster into so much fire and brimstone. One that came very close was BearShare, built in a couple of months by Florida programmer Vincent Falco. "It offers a little...
Even after having to temporarily release the Manila man they had in custody for insuffucient evidence, Filipino investigators and their FBI buddies say they've got a list of 10 suspects in their hunt for the progenitor of the Love Bug, all connected to a Manila computer school - including the man, his girlfriend and her sister. But the problem with police action is that it's all cure and no prevention. And the sad fact, says TIME technology writer Lev Grossman, is that there will always be another Love Bug, another Michelangelo, another Melissa. And there's not much anybody...
That's not quite what's happening in Roger Pedersen's lab at the University of California in San Francisco--at least not yet. But he has managed to turn a group of carefully tended progenitor cells into a patch of thriving, beating cardiac muscle. "It's amazing," Pedersen says, "when you put unspecialized cells away, come back after the weekend and there's a clump of heartlike cells beating before your eyes in a dish...
...that the answer doesn't appear anywhere in Jackson's findings. The truth is that there are probably more Linux programs than he realized--a lot more. The best estimate I could find was tens of thousands. Linux, after all, inherited thousands of programs written for Unix, its software progenitor, and users are constantly adding to that library, modifying here, rewriting there, publicizing some and hoarding others...
...WILLYS JEEP The general-purpose vehicle that carried G.I.s during World War II created the off-road market. Then came Jeep's renaissance as the progenitor of the sport-utility vehicles favored by suburbanites...