Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:17:39 -0500 (EST) From: Zippy <seth@interport.net> To: advocacy@freebsd.org Cc: jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Netscape browser Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990318150841.12432A-100000@interport.net>
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Just FYI (please forgive me if this is out-of-line, but it's my first email to this group): I spoke with some Netscape developers on the 16th. They confirmed that Microsoft will be porting MSIE to Linux [1]. I asked them what it would take to get FreeBSD on their list of "Officially Supported" platforms. They said that there is interest among the developers [2], but that they'd need emails sent to nav-support@netscape.com to gauge interest. Can we get the word out? I don't think spamming them is a great idea, but one email per address, short, polite, and to the point, might get us a native port that's supported. After that we might be able to talk them into porting their server applications :) If you need more info, please let me know. Thanks. SB [1] According to the developer I talked to, Microsoft's slogan for this project is "Bringing the Internet to Unix". [2] My feeling is that it's worth their while to officially support a native FreeBSD port, since we already have the option of running Linux bins. Since I think most people would rather run a native port than an emulated one (comments?), this gives Netscape an opportunity to "lock in" the FreeBSD userbase before M$ gets an opportunity. Seth Bromberger seth@interport.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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