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To: damniseedemons who wrote (22290)	12/26/1998 11:23:00 AM
From: Justin Banks	Respond to of 24154

Sal - There have been many software products that market to most (major) OS flavors. Regardless, you call that "innovative"? In a day and age where ISVs can only choose between 95, 98, or NT, or else face punitive pressure from MSFT, yes, I consider this innovative. Count the number of platforms that nav is available for, are there really other products that offer this range of support? What other software products are there that have done this? I don't see the innovation in this. OSS was around long before Netscape opened their browser. And Linux was already commercially viable before this---but even it it weren't, Netscape was just incrementally extending on the OSS idea instead of doing something innovative, IMO IMO, it was innovative for a major s/w company to open their development process to the OSS community. Insofar as this had never been done before, it was innovative almost by the definition of the word. -justinb