Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:41:56 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mother.sneaker.net.au> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free Slowaris (was: Free netscape - good or bad ?) Message-ID: <199801240441.PAA14250@mother.sneaker.net.au> In-Reply-To: <19980124122120.24416@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 24, 98 12:21:20 pm
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+-----[ Greg Lehey ]------------------------------
|
| 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.
My point being that I don't see people deserting Solaris in droves (at least
not because they've made the source available), and SunSoft obviously still
participate in the ongoing development of their product. Not so much a
comment on the difficulty of obtaining source, more a retort to Darren's
outlook on life.
I don't know how much revenue Netscape were generating from client sales
Vs the number of copies downloaded. But I dare say it's minimal compared
with server sales.
There will still be companies who purchase the client, just to have the
support anyway.
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