On Sunday 25 February 2001 13:40, Ron Stodden wrote:
> Ed Wilts wrote:
> > I find it amazing that Mandrake will ship Netscape, binary only, when
> > there is a good GPL alternative (Konqueror) but will not ship a freely
> > distributable binary-only driver for which there is no alternative short
> > of replacing the hardware.
>
> Konqueror is not a replacement for Netscape. Konqueror does not do
> email, newsgroups, or let you compose web pages.
True, but add Kmail, Quanta (or Bluefish or a few others) and Knode or Pan
and you do have true open source equivalents for the rest.
In today's releases, Netscape should no longer be considered mandatory.
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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