From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 23 17:51:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10138 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 17:51:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA10131 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 17:51:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA15848; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:21:21 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA26117; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:21:20 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980124122120.24416@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:21:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Free Slowaris (was: Free netscape - good or bad ?) References: <199801231544.CAA04714@mother.sneaker.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199801231544.CAA04714@mother.sneaker.net.au>; from Andrew Kenneth Milton on Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 02:44:38AM +1100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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