From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 18 12:19:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from astor.interport.net (astor.interport.net [199.184.165.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F60156C2; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:18:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from seth@interport.net) Received: from interport.net (seth@park.nfs.interport.net [205.161.144.2]) by astor.interport.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA09365; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:18:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (seth@localhost) by interport.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA12999; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:17:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:17:39 -0500 (EST) From: Zippy To: advocacy@freebsd.org Cc: jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Netscape browser Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just FYI (please forgive me if this is out-of-line, but it's my first email to this group): I spoke with some Netscape developers on the 16th. They confirmed that Microsoft will be porting MSIE to Linux [1]. I asked them what it would take to get FreeBSD on their list of "Officially Supported" platforms. They said that there is interest among the developers [2], but that they'd need emails sent to nav-support@netscape.com to gauge interest. Can we get the word out? I don't think spamming them is a great idea, but one email per address, short, polite, and to the point, might get us a native port that's supported. After that we might be able to talk them into porting their server applications :) If you need more info, please let me know. Thanks. SB [1] According to the developer I talked to, Microsoft's slogan for this project is "Bringing the Internet to Unix". [2] My feeling is that it's worth their while to officially support a native FreeBSD port, since we already have the option of running Linux bins. Since I think most people would rather run a native port than an emulated one (comments?), this gives Netscape an opportunity to "lock in" the FreeBSD userbase before M$ gets an opportunity. Seth Bromberger seth@interport.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message