On March 26, 2000, OpenTV bought out Spyglass in a stock swap worth $2.5 billion. The acquisition was completed on July 24, 2000. In the deal, they received both Device Mosaic, an embedded web browser, and Prism, a content delivery and transformation system.
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Hmm, reminds of a training session in Dune, with young Paul Atreides getting his butt kicked by a sword-wielding training bot.
This reminds me of something from a Larry Niven novel (wirehead?)
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass):
;-)
On March 26, 2000, OpenTV bought out Spyglass in a stock swap worth $2.5 billion. The acquisition was completed on July 24, 2000. In the deal, they received both Device Mosaic, an embedded web browser, and Prism, a content delivery and transformation system.
Poor poor Spyglass
Replace "Linus" with "Jesus" and you have a potent statement there.