Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 06:58:39 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan) Cc: AdamT@smginc.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sef@kithrup.com Subject: Re: Mike Shaver: Netscape gives away source code for Communicator Message-ID: <199801231458.GAA08114@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980123133010.29251E-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> from Daniel O'Callaghan at "Jan 23, 98 01:32:39 pm"
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Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Adam Turoff wrote: > > > > > Uh, no. According to the press announcement, the source is going out > > under the GPL. They get the rights to see any new feature someone > > comes up with and can't limit use of the source. Should be free to use > > with the *BSD/Linux/etc. CDs. > > > > How they're going to deal with that and make the value added versions > > worth paying for and not GPL'ed is going to be interesting. > > It is a promotional exercise. They get 10000 hackers brains making > Netscape's browser the best in the world, and so corporations will > naturally go to Netscape for web and proxy servers etc. > > What I like about this announcement is that it necessarily becomes legal > to carry a Netscape mirror site (I hope!) security will be the big win here. even without source code people have devoted time and energy to finding bugs in the java virtual machine. with source code available and a commitment to implement fixes, security will be greatly enhanced. 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. jmb
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