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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.

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