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Date:      Thu, 05 Sep 2002 10:40:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dominic Mitchell <dom@semantico.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current Mailing List <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, Michael WARDLE <michael.wardle@adacel.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Subject:   Re: web browsers
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020905104016.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3D771E2A.9070008@semantico.com>

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On 05-Sep-2002 Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> Garrett Wollman wrote:
>> I'll stick with something that works, and works fast.  I'm well aware
>> of the security issues, and have determined the risk to be
>> insignificant for the way I use a Web browser.  (And frankly, I don't
>> much care what lusing Web-design weenies think about it.)
> 
> Well, that's the kind of attitude that leads to web designers not using 
> FreeBSD.  If you want more people to use a nice standards based OS, why 
> not consider acknowledging them back and using a nice, standards 
> compliant browser?

Umm, developers are free to use whatever applications they want on their
personal machines.  The only thing that could possibly have any PR
relation to web designers would be if we shipped an actual web browser
in the base system that was "offensive" or something.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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