Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:21:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mother.sneaker.net.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Free Slowaris (was: Free netscape - good or bad ?) Message-ID: <19980124122120.24416@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199801231544.CAA04714@mother.sneaker.net.au>; from Andrew Kenneth Milton on Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 02:44:38AM %2B1100 References: <199801231544.CAA04714@mother.sneaker.net.au>
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On Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 02:44:38AM +1100, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: >> -----[ 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. Somebody tried this recently. It turns out you need to be a professor of computer science or have his backing to get the source. Not quite what we're looking at here. Greg
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