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To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (28088)	2/21/2000 9:15:00 PM
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To Thread: The link to the NY Times Story that this Reuters article is paraphrasing requires a subscription but is in the technology section if you've got one. This IPO, if it gets there, will be good for at least a one-day 600% flip. This is not completely off-topic; note that they got Bud Tribble out of Sun. --QS Former Macintosh designers at Eazel start-up - reports SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Four members of the original Apple Computer Inc.(NASDAQ:AAPL) Macintosh developer team have reunited at a Silicon Valley start-up company called Eazel that is seeking to make the renegade Linux operating system easier to use, according to published reports. The company, based in Palo Alto, Calif., was founded in the autumn of 1999 by Mike Boich and Andy Hertzfeld, two original members of the Apple Macintosh team, and Bart Decrem, the founder of Plugged In, a non-profit community technology access center in East Palo Alto. According to Monday's New York Times, the company has also recruited Susan Kare and Guy Tribble, two other members of the original Macintosh development team. Tribble was most recently with Sun Microsystems Inc (NASDAQ:SUNW), where he was chief technology officer for the Sun-Netscape alliance. "Eazel, founded in the Fall of 1999, intends to make Linux the desktop of choice for millions of people," the company says on its Web site at www.eazel.com. "To achieve this, we are creating next generation user interface software and services designed to make Linux easier to use." The company is currently backed by Ron Conway, a well-known Silicon Valley individual, or so-called "angel" investor. Eazel also has financial backing from Mike Homer, a former executive at Netscape and Apple, and Bud Colligan, the former chairman of Macromedia Inc (NASDAQ:MACR). According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Eazel is working to give Linux a new graphical shell - a new point-and-click interface for managing files and folders. Their goal, reported the Chronicle, is to make Linux as easy to use at the Macintosh or Windows, and eventually even easier. Linux, which has been making inroads as a rival to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows in certain applications, such as Web and e-mail hosting, is still seen as too unwieldy for average computer users. Two other groups in the open source software development community, the Gnome Project and KDE, have both been working on making Linux easier to use. Corel Inc., which launched a version of Linux at Comdex last November, uses the KDE interface in its Corel Linux. Eazel has formed an alliance with the group of Linux programmers who developed the Gnome interface for Linux, according to the New York Times. The Gnome Project was founded by Mexican software programmer Miguel de Icaza, who also recently started up his own company in Cambridge, to develop applications for Linux. Eazel officials could not be reached for comment. Copyright 2000, Reuters News Service