From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 23 08:00:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13718 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 08:00:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mother.sneaker.net.au (root@mother.sneaker.net.au [203.30.3.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13702 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 08:00:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akm@mother.sneaker.net.au) Received: (from akm@localhost) by mother.sneaker.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA04714 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 02:44:38 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <199801231544.CAA04714@mother.sneaker.net.au> Subject: Re: Free netscape - good or bad ? To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 02:44:38 +1100 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk +-----[ Darren Reed ]------------------------------ | | In some mail from Jonathan M. Bresler, sie said: | > | > corporations and financial institutions will find this | > very attractive. to counter, microsoft would have to create | > a high quality product.....something the "regents of reboot" | > have never done. | | I beg to differ. If Netscape no longer participate in the product, | then that is good for Microsoft - the Netscape browser becomes yet | another shareware/freeware product with no real support, etc. | | Granted not everyone thinks like that but some people DO. Solaris is under the similar type of licence at the moment now is it not? You can get full source code for Solaris if you're an educational institution. They were hoping to get bug-fixes etc sent back to them so that they could determine which they would add into the final product. I would assume that Netscape would still make "official" releases of Netscape, with a "Best Of" the fixes/patches/enhancements. -- ,-_|\ SneakerNet | Andrew Milton | GSM: +61(41)6 022 411 / \ P.O. Box 154 | akm@sneaker.net.au | Fax: +61(2) 9746 8233 \_,-._/ N Strathfield +--+----------------------+---+ Ph: +61(2) 9746 8233 v NSW 2137 | Low cost Internet Solutions |