I protest. The New York Times's John Markoff writes:
The New York Times > Technology > Google Moves Toward Clash With Microsoft: There is a rich history of less-than-successful attempts to create information search tools for personal computers. In the 1980's, for example, Mitchell Kapor's On Technology developed On Location for retrieving information on Macintosh computers and Bill Gross, a prominent software developer, led a group of programmers to create Lotus Magellan for the PC.
But both OnLocation and Lotus Magellan were brilliant programs--completely successful. The fact that the companies could not find a profitable way to distribute and maintain them should take nothing away from the programming achievement. In a better world than this one we would have found a way to keep these extremely useful programs up-to-date and in our software toolkits.
It's not a less-than-successful attempt to create information search tools. It's a less-than-successful ability to finance the maintenance of excellent and wonderful programs.
Posted by DeLong at May 19, 2004 07:46 PM | TrackBack | | Other weblogs commenting on this postWill Wonkette link to this? If so, why?
Posted by: tedb on May 19, 2004 08:39 PMIt's not a less-than-successful attempt to comment on contemporary economic success. It's a less-than-successful ability to market commentary on contemporary economic success. Sorry, Brad. (BTW, Timberwolves beat Sacremento.)
Posted by: tedb on May 19, 2004 08:43 PMSo quit reading NY Times, it's full of shit as everyone knows. Needless to say, between reading junk and posting comments on it on this site, I wonder how Mr Delong has any time left for his professorial duties.
Posted by: annoying on May 20, 2004 02:27 AMBrad, Magellan was wonderful. Lotus killed it only because it had been sold as a low priced piece of software. The company wanted a high priced image.
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