From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Nov 1 13:35:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09922 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 13:35:16 -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 NAA09911 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 13:35:13 -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 IAA07637; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:04:20 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id IAA20938; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:04:13 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981102080413.G19187@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:04:13 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com, 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: <19981031113411.W5846@freebie.lemis.com> <199811011941.MAA23590@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199811011941.MAA23590@usr05.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 07:41:50PM +0000 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 Sunday, 1 November 1998 at 19:41:50 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> 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. > > By all means, let's artificially limit the number of applications > that appear to run on FreeBSD by imposing political agendas > unrelated to the agenda of FreeBSD advocacy, and unrelated to > as yet unresolve court decisions. 1. This stuff doesn't run on FreeBSD. 2. I don't care too much about court decisions. The evidence I've seen leaves no doubt that Microsoft is in deliberate breach of contract with Sun over the Java content. In my book, that's piracy. > Not. Not for the first time, you're missing the point. 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