From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 2 16:34:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EEAE37B416 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:34:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0116.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.116] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16sYj9-000766-00; Tue, 02 Apr 2002 16:34:15 -0800 Message-ID: <3CAA4DF0.7A1B535@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 16:33:52 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Anthony Atkielski , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix References: <20020402113404.A52321@lpt.ens.fr> <3CA9854E.A4D86CC4@mindspring.com> <20020402123254.H49279@lpt.ens.fr> <009301c1da83$9fa73170$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020402211845.GA1790@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > The real question is, do they fix it > > > for you so that it doesn't crash? > > > > Yes. That's what real support--the kind that corporate users are willing to > > pay for--provides. > > I was talking about Netscape 4.x, and Terry's arguments for preferring > it over mozilla. I haven't met a single person who says it doesn't > crash, and its average uptime for me was less than half an hour -- > while mozilla pretty nearly never crashes, except for some misbehaving > plugins sometimes. My arguments are, in order of importance: 1) The immediacy of the installation (e.g. CDROM vs. download) 2) Java support 3) The barrier to entry that recompiling represents 4) The fact that it's a commercial product Netscape 6 fails a bit, and Mozilla fails a lot, against this list. Remember that this entire discussion was started in the context of a set of Microsoft arguments against UNIX. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message