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To: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Plugin? (Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? ) 
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Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 18:00:24 -0700
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Not sure that I understand your reluctance to support "plugin" technology.
Plugins are useful from the perspective of not requiring the user
to recompile the whole package.

	Amancio



>From The Desk Of "Joel N. Weber II" :
>    Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 12:47:34 -0700
>    From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
> 
>    Does anyone out there know or have the source for a netscape plugin?
> 
> Incidentally, don't think that you're going to get plugin functionality
> in E-scape.  The unavalibility of source for plugins makes me uninterested
> in supporting them.  However, I'll be happy to merge Shockwave and
> RealAudio into the main E-scape sources if you can give me the source
> and there are clearly no potential copyright or patent problems.
> 
> (IMHO, plugins allow you to do some of the things you could do if
> you actually had the source, in a way that requires more work for everyone.)
> 
> Are there more than a half dozen plugins out there which
> are truely useful?  Is there anything other than Shockwave
> and RealAudio that are really useful?
>