> because the fact I had any knowledge of Java. Because you even knew the word "Java"! We were somehow part of a swirling cloud of folks somehow trying to buy

> because the fact I had any knowledge of Java. Because you even knew the word "Java"! We were somehow part of a swirling cloud of folks somehow trying to buy Lycos about then. I don't know that CMU knew how to think about pricing such things. At least not the parts we were talking to. IBM seemed to be getting on with Doug Tygar's Citadel group, though, so it might have just been us that didn't know what we were doing! :-)