Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 12:25:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Bill A. K." <billieakay@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MS Internet Explorer For FreeBSD Message-ID: <19991001122556.N496@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <005f01bf0bb7$035fe480$01010101@bopper>; from Bill A. K. on Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:45:11PM -0400 References: <005f01bf0bb7$035fe480$01010101@bopper>
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On Thursday, 30 September 1999 at 22:45:11 -0400, Bill A. K. wrote: > Hi Everybody, > I have an initative going to gather a petition to submit to Microsoft > Corporation to try to convince them to port their Internet Explorer for UNIX > to FreeBSD (Currently they have it available for Solaris and HP-UX) > > Anyone who would like more information or to sign the petition or > agree/disagree, etc. please visit > > http://iefreebsd.freeservers.com > > or email me at billieakay@yahoo.com I have an objection on principle. Internet Explorer uses Sun's Java in breach of contract. I therefore consider it no better than pirated software. It sets a bad example to ask Microsoft to continue their piratery. Besides, as others have observed, the product itself is not too good. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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-questions" in the body of the message
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