Re: The Opera browser

From: Bob Romprey ([email protected])
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 05:34:40 CEST

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Michele,
Please go check out
(http://www.grc.com) before making any decisions pretaining opera.....
You might have to hunt around there, but there used to be a very good article about opera there

>Reply-To: [email protected]
>Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:52:45 +0200
> Michele Andreoli <[email protected]> [email protected] Re: The Opera browser
>On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 03:08:31PM +0100, [email protected] nicely wrote:
>
>> This does not have anything to do with making muLinux /possible/ but rather
>> it means adding some nice programs to muLinux to make it more interesting for
>> a special kind of users: the ones targeted to having an even more usefull
>> muLinux and not being interested sooooo much in licensing issues.
>
>I agree totally, under the right statement you point: this kind of addiction
>has to be considered *an exception*, in order to confirm the basic rule.
>
>>
>> Ok, before you consider starting yet another flame war, please believe me that I
>> do NOT 'insist' in getting Opera for muLinux (I would never dare 'demanding'
>> something a free software author).
>
>Oh, I'm just happy if You, Karl-Heinz do not insist in removing every
>muLinux addons!
>
>
>>I just wanted to tell my humble opinion that
>> being a non-free product does not neccessarily mean it is an uninteresting
>> product or one that is not worth being included into muLinux:
>
>Perfectly true. Even Debian added some non-free product in its distro,
>in order to drag together also free-software.
>
>>
>> IMHO the decision whether something will/could/should not be included
>> into muLinux should be made based upon severe technical reasons or based
>> upon strong demand of thousands of users or something like that -- but not
>> primarily based upon the fact that it it or is not FREE software.
>
>In the case of Opera/Netscape, we are very lucky: Netscape is not a *puma*,
>as far page-rendering is concerned, but to have Internet+XWindow+Netscape
>is only four floppy-disk is anyway a good thing to have.
>
>Michele
>--
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>they set a meeting time, the location changes. And vice versa -- Anonymous
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