From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 23 10:12:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA25383 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 10:12:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (root@mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA25332 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 10:12:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gad@mlor.its.rpi.edu) Received: from mlor.its.rpi.edu (mlor.its.rpi.edu [128.113.24.92]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA08426; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:11:38 -0500 Received: by mlor.its.rpi.edu (NX5.67f2/NX3.0M) id AA10759; Fri, 23 Jan 98 13:16:38 -0500 Message-Id: <9801231816.AA10759@mlor.its.rpi.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) From: Garance A Drosehn Date: Fri, 23 Jan 98 13:16:37 -0500 To: Darren Reed Subject: Re: Free netscape - good or bad ? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu References: <199801231527.HAA10770@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Darren Reed wrote: > In some mail from Jonathan M. Bresler, sie said: > > > > even without source code people have devoted time and > > energy to finding bugs in the java virtual machine. with > > source code available and a commitment to implement fixes, > > security will be greatly enhanced. > > I beg to differ. If Netscape no longer participates in the > product, then that is good for Microsoft - the Netscape browser > becomes yet another shareware/freeware product with no real > support, etc. Netscape is not abandoning the product, they are merely making the source code available to interested parties. Netscape claims that making the source code available will let them "harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the internet by incorporating their best enhancements into future versions of Netscape's software". That comment wouldn't even make sense unless Netscape is still "participating" in the product. I think it's a good move for Netscape. And to keep this somewhat relevent to the hackers mailing list, it will be certainly a good move for netscape on FreeBSD... :-) --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA