Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 23:54:09 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> Cc: Chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" (moved to chat) Message-ID: <199804120554.XAA24314@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980411163518.423A-100000@s8-37-26.student.wa shington.edu> References: <Version.32.19980411182138.00e46580@cybercom.net>
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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. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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