From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 13 18:52:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07784 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 18:52:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (root@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07752 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 18:51:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ncb05@uow.edu.au) Received: from banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.188.1]) by wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with SMTP id LAA24400 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 11:51:51 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 11:51:49 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn X-Sender: ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internet Exploder inseparable from Windows? In-Reply-To: <199805131500.JAA04221@lariat.lariat.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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