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Date:      Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:56:28 +0000
From:      John Ekins <jre@globalnet.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: home pc use
Message-ID:  <3BFBA47C.5691D8D0@globalnet.co.uk>
References:  <15354.60877.44081.17515@guru.mired.org><019701c17224$013e6520$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15355.2770.644343.846234@guru.mired.org><01e201c17234$24bc2360$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15355.6508.841314.798412@guru.mired.org> <005001c17288$c17d0800$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3BFBA123.E3BBF104@globalnet.co.uk> <007601c1728a$2c67fbb0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>

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Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> 
> John writes:
> 
> > If you "stopped supporting Netscape 4.x over a
> > year ago" why is it in your list of installed
> > software??
> 
> I've never deinstalled it, because I might need it at some time in the future.

Does that go for other software in your list too?
 
> > And if you "voted to just drop Netscape support"
> > why do you have Netscape installed at all??
> 
> I create Web sites for other people besides myself, and some of them remain
> misguided enough to insist on Netscape support specifically, instead of just
> support for any browser that observes the standards.  The 6.x version of
> Netscape is much more standards compliant, but sometimes you have to verify that
> something works, as a client who uses nothing but Netscape will assume that
> anything that displays incorrectly on Netscape has a problem, and not the other
> way around.

So you are working around the problem for them. In your own words
"Incompatible | conflicting != broken", or does that only hold for
hardware? Why then aren't you willing to work around the problems you are
having rather than just complaining about FreeBSD/KDE/whatever? 

I really would like to see this thread completely finished so that this
list can get back to what it used to be used for. I never used to find
every post useful, but it was never tedious. 

John.

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