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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2001 15:40:38 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Opera ports to QNX but not BSD
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010515153824.045e3e70@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20010515142738.A53178@zippy.mybox.zip>
References:  <20010515142152.A12190@xor.obsecurity.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010515112511.045e75b0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010515112511.045e75b0@localhost> <20010515121629.A10144@xor.obsecurity.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010515131451.00b13950@localhost> <20010515140528.A11778@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010515141341.B714@zippy.mybox.zip> <20010515142152.A12190@xor.obsecurity.org>

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At 03:27 PM 5/15/2001, Alex Zepeda wrote:

>Sure, but that just goes to prove that Opera is only of use to those who
>want the Opera name.

Not so. It's a good browser and e-mail client.

>FreeBSD does not need any of the unmaintained, commercial, closed source
>brwosers that work, somewhat on FreeBSD.  We've got <insert your favorite
>choice here>, and yes it does Netscape plugins as well...

It would be far better to have a maintained, supported, commercial version
of Opera's browser. Unfortunately, this will not happen unless the BSD
community takes some initiative. This means that both BSDi and the users
need to rattle Opera's cage.

--Brett


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