Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 08:05:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net>, Chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" (moved to chat) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980412080431.281C-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804120554.XAA24314@lariat.lariat.org>
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On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Brett Glass wrote: > At 04:36 PM 4/11/98 -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > >Yes. It is called the FreeBSD newsletter. It is online one the website. > >You can view it with the linux version of acrobat. > > Two problems: > > 1. There's only one issue, and it's stale. > > 2. It's in a proprietary format that requires many readers to download > a plug-in. (Others, such as users as some of the other *BSD's, can't > even GET a plug-in and so can't read it.) There's no excuse for this in > a situation where we want to support non-proprietary standards and easy > migration between platforms. Hey! I didn't say it was perfect. I was just pointing to its existence. The original poster had requested a "magazine." I was just telling that poster what we _did_ have. Have fun, | Stop warning me about the latest virus. Learn more... Jason Wells | http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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