When Mark Andreessen was at the University of Illinois, a big, corn-fed Iowa guy, he does what great innovators do. He combines a feel for technology, because he was a great computer coder, with a feel for the humanities. He knew how people interface with great products. He created the Mosaic browser, which had wonderful technical features and was done in a smart way. It was made public. It was made free. It was almost as if it were more open-source than proprietary.
