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by stefanpie 654 days ago
Very cool to learn where my Linux file manager GUI app came from.

One point that is light on details in the wiki was what exactly their monetization plan was or if they even had one at all? It sounds like they wanted to integrate business/enterprise features and support, or perhaps features that plug into other internet services that they could possibly monetize. It sounds like the "network user experience" with "Eazel Online Storage" and "Software Catalog" were their initial monetization ideas.

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This was 1999. Monetization hadn't been invented yet.
You make it sound like companies didn't need to make money before 2000 rolled around.
During the dotcom bubble, they really didn't.
which was the case for internet related companies
They wanted to be Dropbox before Dropbox.