Scripting News: “At some point in the next few months, there will be an open source release of the Frontier kernel.”
Congratulations to Dave Winer on reaching a new milestone in the history of Frontier. Another loop closes as a new door opens.
The roots of blogging today can be traced back, in part at least, to the release of Aretha in May 1995. At that time, Frontier was locked away, unused, unprofitable and largely unappreciated. It could have ended there. But Dave made the software free (as in beer) and so started a chain of events that eventually lead to Clay Basket, Manila, Radio, XML-RPC and RSS. It also helped launch the career of Brent Simmons, the author of NetNewsWire.
Of course, that is not the whole story of blogging, but Frontier and Aretha are clearly high up in the Blog family tree. I'm glad to see Dave and Userland taking it a step further and I look forward to seeing where this journey takes us. Thank you and good luck. Let a thousand flowers bloom. [flowdelic]