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Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> > I think the web server bit would be more profitable nut to crack.
> > Apache and perl is the main competitor. Zope and python may be coming
> > attractions.
> 
> Apache is sort of the model I'm thinking of here. Apache is dominant as
> *the* GPL solution. 

I've read this claim many times, but in fact, Apache is not GPL
software (see http://www.apache.org/LICENSE.txt, the license is even
at the border to GPL incompatibility).

> As programmers we all have our own itches to scratch. At the moment *my*
> biggest one happens to be web browser (as you can no doubt tell from the
> diatribe above).

If I were better at GUI hacking (and had more time), I would rewrite
the Emacs display engine and enhance W3 accordingly.  Writing a decent
display engine is not easy, and this approach would ensure that it can
be used for things which are more important than viewing web pages. ;)