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From: adam@yggdrasil.com (Adam J. Richter)
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<H2>Yggdrasil approved by The World Wide Web Consortium to develop
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"Arena" Web Browser.</H2>
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Bill Selmeier<BR>
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Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.<BR>
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+1 408 261 6630<BR>
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bills@yggdrasil.com<BR>
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http://www.yggdrasil.com<BR>
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Sally Khudairi<BR>
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W3C - World Wide Web Consortium<BR>
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+1.617.253.8036<BR>
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khudairi@w3.org<BR>
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http://www.w3.org/<BR>
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Steve Cook<BR>
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Pearl Software<BR>
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(510) 642-4361<BR>
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steve@pearlsoft.com<BR>
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http://www.pearlsoft.com<BR>
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San Jose, CA -- February 17, 1997 -- The World Wide Web Consortium
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[W3C] has approved Yggdrasil Computing to coordinate future
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development of Arena, a powerful graphical web browser originally
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developed as the Consortium's research testbed. Under the agreement,
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Yggdrasil will undertake new development and support the developer
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community on the internet. Yggdrasil will issue regular releases,
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provide a centralized file archive and web site, integrate contributed
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enhancements and fixes, create mailing lists for developers and users,
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and facilitate widespread use of Arena by others.
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Yggdrasil's additions to Arena will be placed under the "GNU General
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Public License", which allows unlimited distribution both for profit
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and not for profit, provided that source code is made freely
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available, including source code to any modifications. No exclusive
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rights have been given to Yggdrasil. Anybody could legally do what
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Yggdrasil is doing, although the Consortium now considers Yggdrasil
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the formal maintainer of Arena.
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VEHICLE FOR BROWSER TECHNOLOGY
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The Arena web browser creates a new vehicle by which developers of
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browser technology will be able to reach large numbers of users. "We
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are eager to work with browser companies that want to use Arena to
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widely distribute free browser software as part of their marketing
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strategy. We are especially interested in working with members of the
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World Wide Web Consortium," explained Yggdrasil president Adam
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Richter.
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PLAN TO REACH WINDOWS USERS
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Although Arena currently only runs under Linux and Linux-like systems
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such as UNIX(R) and FreeBSD, Yggdrasil announced that it has taken the
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first step toward bringing Arena to MS-Windows platforms by licensing
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an X-Windows emulator from Pearl Software which will enable an
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MS-Windows version of Arena. "Because the Windows environment is not
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our focus, we are looking for a partner company to market the DOS
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product," said Richter. "We believe that CD-ROM titles that include a
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browser, the OEM market and other bundling arrangements would be
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substantial opportunities for such a company, just for starters."
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ABOUT ARENA
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Arena is a graphical web browser comprised entirely of free software.
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Its origins predate proprietary packages such as Netscape Navigator,
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Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mosaic. It is the source of a number
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of innovations which have since been copied by other web browsers.
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"Arena has pioneered important HTML concepts like tables and style
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sheets. Without Arena, the Web would not look the same today," said
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Hakon Lie, Style Sheets Lead at W3C. "We are happy to see the Arena code
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being maintained
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by the free software community and Yggdrasil."
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Now that the free
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software community is organizing around Arena, development is expected
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to accelerate dramatically. "Our first developer snapshots
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incorporate an upgrade to the latest web library from the World Wide
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Web Consortium, which facilitates inclusion of URL types designed
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to ease interfaces to search engines" predicted Yggdrasil's Arena
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project coordinator, Qing Long. "After that, we expect to do
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developer maintenance releases as often as once a week as we stabilize
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the code and add new features."
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ABOUT THE WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM [W3C]
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The W3C was created to develop common protocols that enhance the
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interoperability and promote the evolution of the World Wide Web. It is
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an industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Laboratory for Computer
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Science (LCS) in the USA, the National Institute for Research in
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Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France and Keio University in
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Japan. Services provided by the Consortium include: a repository of
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information about the World Wide Web for developers and users; reference
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code implementations to embody and promote standards; and various
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prototype and sample applications to demonstrate use of new technology.
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To date over 156 organizations are Members of the Consortium.
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ABOUT PEARL SOFTWARE
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Pearl Software is a software company founded in 1993 to bring free
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graphical software developed by the Linux and unix communities to the
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Windows market. The Oakland, California, based company is best known
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for its Win-Emacs product, a Windows version of the popular XEmacs
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development environment.
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ABOUT YGGDRASIL
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Yggdrasil Computing is a software company founded in 1992 to turn free
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software developed on the internet into viable solutions for
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businesses and consumers. Yggdrasil publishes, supports and develops
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a line of products based on Linux, a clone of the UNIX(R) operating
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system consisting entirely of free software developed on the internet.
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The Arena web browser will play an important role in Yggdrasil's
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efforts to provide complete solutions to customers based on the free
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software model.
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DEVELOPER INFORMATION
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New releases of the Arena web browser are accessible on the internet
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under the URL <A HREF="ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/pub/dist/web/arena">
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ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/pub/dist/web/arena</A>. There
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are two mailing lists for Arena: <A
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HREF="mailto:Arena-developers@yggdrasil.com">
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Arena-developers@yggdrasil.com</A>,
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and <A HREF="mailto:Arena-users@yggdrasil.com">
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Arena-users@yggdrasil.com</A>. Participants may obtain information
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on subscribing to either list by sending an email message with "help"
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in the body of the message to <A HREF="mailto:petidomo@yggdrasil.com">
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petidomo@yggdrasil.com</A>. Bug reports
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should
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be sent to arena-developers@yggdrasil.com. A web page is available
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at http://www.yggdrasil.com/Products/Arena.
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UNIX is a registered trademark of X / O p e n
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Microsoft Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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