On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 10:35:28PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
->
-> ??? I thought that Netscape had releaseed their source code some time
-> ago ??
->
-> On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote:
-> | On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote:
-> | >
-> | > Please, fix those pesky little things : Netscape on Linux is
-> | > definitively behind Netscape on Win* or even, - apologize -, MSIE. So
-> | > please, fix that kind of misbehaving B&W look 'n' feel and the kind of
-> | > bugs : it's hard to advocated Linux vs. Win2K in that kind of context...
-> | > ;o)
-> | >
-> | Talk to Netscape on this. Mandrake, et al have no control
-> | over Netscape. Perhaps if they could get their hands on the
-> | SOURCE CODE, they could fix it, but since Netscape won't
-> | release the source code, per se, Mandrake and RedHat and
-> | SuSE, etc. can't do anything about Netscape problems.
-> | John
Nope. What Netscape released was a code fork. They stripped out a lot of
proprietary code from other vendors -- stuff they couldn't release -- and
replaced it with in-house replacements. Mozilla is completely
non-proprietary and open, Netscape 4.x is partially outsourced
proprietary. In Netscape, go to "Help->About Communicator" to get an idea.
Once Mozilla is ready for prime time, perhaps Linux disties will go with
that, John will have a legitimate beef.
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