From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 23 21:00:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA01740 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 21:00:12 -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 VAA01732 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 21:00:03 -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 PAA14250; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:41:56 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <199801240441.PAA14250@mother.sneaker.net.au> Subject: Re: Free Slowaris (was: Free netscape - good or bad ?) To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:41:56 +1100 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980124122120.24416@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 24, 98 12:21:20 pm 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 +-----[ 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. -- ,-_|\ 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 |