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Date:      Thu, 14 May 1998 11:51:49 +1000 (EST)
From:      Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>
To:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Internet Exploder inseparable from Windows?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.96.980514114918.22180A-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199805131500.JAA04221@lariat.lariat.org>

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On Wed, 13 May 1998, Brett Glass wrote:

> Greg:
> 
> It's for Solaris only, which indicates that Microsoft wants to invade Sun's
> turf. I dunno about you, but I would NOT load anything from Microsoft onto
> a UNIX system and type "make" as root. Considering how badly their Windows
> installation software can corrupt a system -- and how they effectively boot
> Netscape out of the system on Macs -- that'd be dumb if not suicidal.
> 
> --Brett
> 
[snip]

That's providing they provide you with source code in order to build it.
And i'm fairly certain they're not going to do that in the near future.
But i do see your point about installing anything from MS considering
their history of making nasty little configurations without informing you.

Nick

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