Friday, August 01, 1997

PC WEEK: Netscape to offer standalone browser. Thanks!

Got Java? FlowFazer is cooool.

MacWorld: Licensing pullback could boomerang on Apple.

InfoWorld: Web-enabled FileMaker is an HTTP server.

Confirmed with individual sources at four Mac clone vendors... Early this week Apple's board of directors discontinued licensing the Mac OS, withdrew their committment of CHRP, and decided not to license a laptop or their new desktop designs.

SJ Merc: According to a former Apple executive, Jobs spoke out against cloners at high-level internal Apple meetings earlier this year. And in a May speech, Jobs disparaged what he called 'leech' cloners and complained they weren't paying Apple enough.

Reuters: Ellison to join Apple's board. NY Times: Jobs active in recruiting new CEO. Picture of Jobs, Sculley and Wozniak in 1984 at the rollout of the Apple IIc. A summary of Orwell's 1984 by Guenter Ott.

The 1984 Message

I'm looking for a picture of Jobs at the 1/24/84 Mac rollout for a piece I'm working on. Please send email to dave@scripting.com if you find one. Thanks!

Kurt Vonnegut: Do one thing every day that scares you.

Thursby Software's awkwardly named Dave software makes a Mac a full peer on a Windows NT network. It's strategic software.

From Larry Tesler, tesler@pobox.com: "After seventeen years, I am leaving Apple to co-found a software company that will develop products for children."