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Date:      Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:21:20 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mother.sneaker.net.au>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Free Slowaris (was: Free netscape - good or bad ?)
Message-ID:  <19980124122120.24416@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199801231544.CAA04714@mother.sneaker.net.au>; from Andrew Kenneth Milton on Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 02:44:38AM %2B1100
References:  <199801231544.CAA04714@mother.sneaker.net.au>

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On Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 02:44:38AM +1100, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
>> -----[ Darren Reed ]------------------------------
>>
>> In some mail from Jonathan M. Bresler, sie said:
>>>
>>> 	corporations and financial institutions will find this
>>> 	very attractive.   to counter, microsoft would have to create
>>> 	a high quality product.....something the "regents of reboot"
>>> 	have never done.
>>
>> I beg to differ.  If Netscape no longer participate in the product,
>> then that is good for Microsoft - the Netscape browser becomes yet
>> another shareware/freeware product with no real support, etc.
>>
>> Granted not everyone thinks like that but some people DO.
>
> Solaris is under the similar type of licence at the moment now is it not?
> You can get full source code for Solaris if you're an educational
> institution.

Somebody tried this recently.  It turns out you need to be a professor
of computer science or have his backing to get the source.  Not quite
what we're looking at here.

Greg



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