From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 15 14:45:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB64737B424 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 14:45:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA11581; Tue, 15 May 2001 15:45:21 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010515153824.045e3e70@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:40:38 -0600 To: Alex Zepeda , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Opera ports to QNX but not BSD 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message