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 -- Email: ncb05@uow.edu.au - DE 30 33 D3 16 91 C8 8D A7 F8 70 03 B7 77 1A 2A http://rabble.uow.edu.au/~nick - public key available on request. Nicholas Brawn - Computer Science Undergraduate, University of Wollongong. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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