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Date:      Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:44:15 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
Subject:   Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit"
Message-ID:  <XFMail.991115144415.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991114215748.60089A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>

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On 15-Nov-99 David Scheidt wrote:
>  has shipped with some text editor.  Every unix I have used has supplied
>  ed(1), but don't keep me from installing vi, or emacs, or anything else.
>  For the mot part, they don't claim that things won't work as well if I do
>  install a third party editor either.

Of course most FTP clients are 12meg downloads.

The barrier to using another browser is an important consideration. Especially
when MS twisted the arm of the OEM to not install Navigator on the machines
they make.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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