<i>"... After a year at Microsoft, around 1995, I became a program manager on the Internet Explorer web browser project. I was paid well to lead smart people in the making of software used by millions of people. ..."</i><p>The history and lineage of IE goes something like this:<p>- Andreessen/Bina created Mosaic in '92 at NCSA, released it with liberal licensing but publicly funded under act Al Gore introduced ~ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_and_Communication_Act_of_1991" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_and_...</a><p>- Andreessen left to create Mozilla with jzw ~ <a href="http://www.jwz.org/hacks/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jwz.org/hacks/</a> at Netscape.<p>- Eric Sink worked on the UI/NCSA commercially released source code ~ <a href="http://www.ericsink.com/Browser_Wars.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ericsink.com/Browser_Wars.html</a> patched the code for Spyglass.<p>- Scott Berkun responsible for MS purchased Spyglass browser.<p>Glad Scott now makes up for the crap IE browser, MS forced it's users to dogfood for so many years.