From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 30 19:56: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F38CC1535E for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 19:56:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA25446; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 12:25:56 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 12:25:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Bill A. K." Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: MS Internet Explorer For FreeBSD Message-ID: <19991001122556.N496@freebie.lemis.com> References: <005f01bf0bb7$035fe480$01010101@bopper> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <005f01bf0bb7$035fe480$01010101@bopper>; from Bill A. K. on Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:45:11PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 30 September 1999 at 22:45:11 -0400, Bill A. K. wrote: > Hi Everybody, > I have an initative going to gather a petition to submit to Microsoft > Corporation to try to convince them to port their Internet Explorer for UNIX > to FreeBSD (Currently they have it available for Solaris and HP-UX) > > Anyone who would like more information or to sign the petition or > agree/disagree, etc. please visit > > http://iefreebsd.freeservers.com > > or email me at billieakay@yahoo.com I have an objection on principle. Internet Explorer uses Sun's Java in breach of contract. I therefore consider it no better than pirated software. It sets a bad example to ask Microsoft to continue their piratery. Besides, as others have observed, the product itself is not too good. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message