Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 02:44:38 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mother.sneaker.net.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free netscape - good or bad ? Message-ID: <199801231544.CAA04714@mother.sneaker.net.au>
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+-----[ Darren Reed ]------------------------------
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| 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. They were hoping to get bug-fixes etc sent back to them
so that they could determine which they would add into the final
product.
I would assume that Netscape would still make "official" releases of
Netscape, with a "Best Of" the fixes/patches/enhancements.
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