Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 16:33:52 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Message-ID: <3CAA4DF0.7A1B535@mindspring.com> References: <20020402113404.A52321@lpt.ens.fr> <3CA9854E.A4D86CC4@mindspring.com> <20020402123254.H49279@lpt.ens.fr> <009301c1da83$9fa73170$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020402211845.GA1790@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > The real question is, do they fix it > > > for you so that it doesn't crash? > > > > Yes. That's what real support--the kind that corporate users are willing to > > pay for--provides. > > I was talking about Netscape 4.x, and Terry's arguments for preferring > it over mozilla. I haven't met a single person who says it doesn't > crash, and its average uptime for me was less than half an hour -- > while mozilla pretty nearly never crashes, except for some misbehaving > plugins sometimes. My arguments are, in order of importance: 1) The immediacy of the installation (e.g. CDROM vs. download) 2) Java support 3) The barrier to entry that recompiling represents 4) The fact that it's a commercial product Netscape 6 fails a bit, and Mozilla fails a lot, against this list. Remember that this entire discussion was started in the context of a set of Microsoft arguments against UNIX. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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