> On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Dave Burgess wrote:
>
> > Speaking of which.
> >
> > Netscape announced (today or yesterday) that effective immediately, all
> > of their browser products are not just FREE, but now will come with
> > source code (source for Communicator V.5 will be out this quarter).
>
> Off topic of course... but they are probably doing this in response to 4th
> quarter looses and the massive move from Netscape to Windows Exploder 4.0.
>
Nothing wrong with that, considering MS is bunch of crooks that finally
got what they deserve. Besides, with GNU availablity of Netscape, the
development will move in blazing speeds. It will kill IE within matter of
months. In addition, this move might open doors for commercial
development for other GNU platforms such as Linux and FreeBSD.
As for massive move, that was only because MS became obnoxious about their
IE. However, their stupid IE 4.0 does not even work normally with NT4.0.
I am not even talking about the amount of HDD space it takes up, how
annoying it is with it's desktop and how long it takes to load the
monster.
-Garry
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