On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:33:36 -0500 (EST) Michael Stutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, kwm wrote:
>
>> Netscape is now free, with source code
>> availability in the near future.
>
>This is great news -- navigator was the one non-free app that I
>absolutely couldn't live without. What other important non-free apps are
left?
>POVray comes to mind ... and XV -- is all of XV's functionality now
available
>with the GIMP?
I wonder if the pressure from Microsoft's
Internet Explorer brought about this change
of strategy, or if the Netscape people (who
started out as NCSA Mosaic people) really
feel that that "Open Development" is the
way of the future? I'm sure that OEM's will
be more inclined to include a copy of Netscape
in their bundle's if it is free... unless MS is
really pressuring the OEM's to only include
IE in the bundles... which is what the Justice
Dept. is investigating, from what I hear.
--
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