[Sussex] NOW: So, who are the all-time greats? WAS Hello all
Neil Ford
neil at smudgypixels.net
Wed Feb 12 00:14:02 UTC 2003
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 11:32 pm, Geoff Teale wrote:
>> - Mitch Kapor - Wasn't he on Baywatch?
>
> Founded Lotus, wrote 1,2,3 ... sold to IBM, retired rich. REally not a
> great contribution.
>
Helped found the EFF, is involved in (founder of?) the Open Source
Applications Foundation (http://http://www.osafoundation.org/index.htm)
who are developing Chandler.
123 was the killer app for the IBM PC. Without it I don't believe the
PC would have broken into business the way it did and the world might
be a very different place (we'd all be using Macs).
Neil.
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