From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 30 17:05:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19378 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:05:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19370 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:05:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA00995; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:34:45 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA28043; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:34:11 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981031113411.W5846@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:34:11 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Drew Baxter , Terry Lambert Cc: wes@softweyr.com, scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk, licia@o-o.org, jcwells@u.washington.edu, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internet Explorer and UNIX References: <199810302303.QAA11237@usr05.primenet.com> <4.1.19981029184530.0097e790@genesis.ispace.com> <199810302303.QAA11237@usr05.primenet.com> <19981031110058.V5846@freebie.lemis.com> <4.1.19981030193231.00a6baf0@genesis.ispace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981030193231.00a6baf0@genesis.ispace.com>; from Drew Baxter on Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 07:34:26PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 30 October 1998 at 19:34:26 -0500, Drew Baxter wrote: > At 11:00 AM 10/31/98 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 30 October 1998 at 23:03:51 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >>>> Oh and at the same time, kudos to Netscape, since we don't see Internet >>>> Hygenist (er Explorer) being ported to anything but Mac and Windows. I >>>> personally hope it stays that way as well. >>> >>> Actually, you can download it for Solaris from the Microsoft >>> Internet Explorer WWW site. >> >> I don't think we should certify pirated software. >> >> Greg > > IE for Solaris isn't pirated. Yes it is. > and I paid 10 bucks for my copy of Solaris (directly from > SUN).. However if you are trying to be creative in saying that IE > stole Netscape's code (which is valid in many respects), then ignore > my response :) I don't think that's being creative. We don't know how much Netscape code is in IE, but Microsoft has abused Java code in there in violation of the licensing restrictions. In my book, that's piracy. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message