Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 17:41:01 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, wes@softweyr.com, scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk, licia@o-o.org, jcwells@u.washington.edu, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internet Explorer and UNIX Message-ID: <4.1.19981101173945.00af9ee0@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <199811012238.PAA29226@usr05.primenet.com> References: <19981102080413.G19187@freebie.lemis.com>
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At 10:38 PM 11/1/98 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> >> I don't think that's being creative. We don't know how much Netscape >> >> code is in IE, but Microsoft has abused Java code in there in >> >> violation of the licensing restrictions. In my book, that's piracy. >> > >> > By all means, let's artificially limit the number of applications >> > that appear to run on FreeBSD by imposing political agendas >> > unrelated to the agenda of FreeBSD advocacy, and unrelated to >> > as yet unresolve court decisions. >> >> 1. This stuff doesn't run on FreeBSD. > >Solaris Binaries now run on FreeBSD, if you install the execution >class loader and the Solaris shared libraries (to cover the gratuitous >incompatability of FreeBSD with the IABI). > >I haven't personally tried to run IE, but there's little reason to >believe that it wouldn't work. > > >> 2. I don't care too much about court decisions. The evidence I've >> seen leaves no doubt that Microsoft is in deliberate breach of >> contract with Sun over the Java content. In my book, that's >> piracy. > >Actually, that's "breach of contract" if you can prove it, and >"libel" if you can't. > >It's not up to us to enforce Microsoft to comply with rules of >law or even of some fuzzy definition of sportsmanlike conduct. > > >> > Not. >> >> Not for the first time, you're missing the point. > > >You're the one missing the point. I don't give a damn if Microsoft >is Evil with a capital 'E', or if Bill Gates is The One True >AntiChrist, with the 6's tatooed under his hairline to prove it. > >It's irrelevent and orthogonal to better advocacy of FreeBSD. > > >Not that I think that Microsoft would put a FreeBSD daemon on >the artwork for IE for Solaris in any case... > >But if they *did*, it'd be tantamount to diplomatic recognition of >FreeBSD by the equivalent of a country on the UN Security council. > >And that's good for advocacy of FreeBSD. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org Interesting thought. Personally I think the IE4 Logo should be a picture of Bill Gates getting a bullet to the head, over, and over, and over.. At the same time, where abouts is the material on Solaris binaries? I have a Solaris box running 2.6 right now, if I don't need it, I can nuke it and make it another FreeBSD box.. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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