My memory is getting kind of blurry on this, but wasn't Gopher heading in a direction where someone wanted to extract licensing fees from it? I do remember dis

My memory is getting kind of blurry on this, but wasn't Gopher heading in a direction where someone wanted to extract licensing fees from it? I do remember discovering how WWW had made some leaps forward and promptly abandoning my project to write a Gopher+ server and instead turning what I was working on into an HTTP server. Sadly I never bothered publishing the code since interesting things were happening with the NCSA httpd code at the time (something which eventually turned into Apache)