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To: SteveG who wrote (61)	5/7/1998 11:57:00 PM
From: SteveG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74

From a Linux using buddy: ------------------- I'm travelling north at the moment and had the opportunity to attend the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group meeting tonight. These guys are on a roll: Two months ago, Linus spoke. Last month, Marc Andressen. Tonight, Tim O'Reilly. Next month, Larry Wall. Can they keep it up? I estimated tonight's attendance at 250! O'Reilly is on a campaign to promote "open source software", including Linux, sendmail, Perl, BIND, Apache, and now Navigator/Communicator. I'll try to remember some details to tell you all Monday night. But the most interesting idea to me was conceptual. Tim thinks that the Web is now the API of the world. He thinks people are starting to use Web sites as subroutines. An example, a pager company that does 411 phone number lookup to two-way pagers. But they don't have their own number data base, they issue an inquiry to someone else's Web site and throw away all the extraneous garbage on the reply. ------------------