Does "modification" include translation to another HLL?

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Sat Dec 8 05:13:19 UTC 2001


Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M. scripsit:

> First, I am unsure what deal Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark had to
> arrange to "take" Mosaic from the University Illinois and call it
> Netscape Navigator, that issue is not what I am addressing, but  as I
> recall, there were a few issues to be resolved. 

My point is that no Mosaic code survives in Netscape; they eventually rewrote
the whole thing.  It's a "ship of Theseus".

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