[breck]

Evidence refuting this, and showing him very actively involved:

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...

[fsckboy]

he could have been actively involved in creating Mosaic as a university project, and still be accused of leaving the university and stealing the software to create a new commercial product.

[kevin_thibedeau]

The source code was public so not much to steal other than the knowledge he already had.