I wrote an extension that allowed you to add an item to a gopher menu remotely -- sort of a PUT option for gopher. I don't know of any licensing issues wrt gopher. I work for the University of Wisconsin and we just took the source code and modified it as much as we liked. Http wiped out gopher but gopher wasn't a competitor to http or even it's ancestor. There were a lot of things kind of like http right before http came out. If the NCSA hadn't invented http, somebody else would have real soon. But I don't think gopher was particularly close. Before that, I worked for a medical imaging company called Merge Healthcare. Great job for a blind guy, eh? I wrote device drivers for medical scanners and storage devices. I still have a megneto optical disc around here with pictures on it of somebody's skull. http://www.merge.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buddy Brannan" <buddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:25 PM Subject: Re: Speakup's future >> Ooh! John! You worked on gopher?! I remember Gopher! I reckon if >> things went a different way and UMN handled licensing differently >> (or so I was told sometime, I forget when or by whom), we might all >> be using Gopher instead of the Web. Interesting, that. Ooh. Them >> were the days. > > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA > Phone: (814) 746-4502 or 888-75-BUDDY > Harnessing the power of Online Spending and Everyday Shopping to > Change Lives: See how, Together, We Can Change the World: > http://www.powermall.info > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
