[lbo-talk] IT innovation and "the Markets"

[Fernando Cassia]

"Our 1991 X Window system browser, ‘Erwise,’ showed that a net browser 
was possible. We were ahead of the times. The next step, to 
commercialize it, did not happen,” Kim Nyberg says. Aside from some 
local media, the Finns have never before been interviewed about this 
remarkable story. But Erwise has an important place in the Internet’s 
birth history."

"And its fate offers a case study of what happens when invention and 
innovation are not accompanied by funding, talent infusion, and a strong 
venture capital market or angel investor presence—all ingredients that 
Silicon Valley (where Mosaic was funded and developed) takes for granted."

http://www.xconomy.com/national/2009/03/03/the-greatest-internet-pioneers-you-never-heard-of-the-story-of-erwise-and-four-finns-who-showed-the-way-to-the-web-browser/

Well, gee, what about Linux?

FC