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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: How about a IE clone for Linux?
From:       Rob Kaper <cap () capsi ! cx>
Date:       2000-03-16 9:34:03
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:19:25AM +0100, Alessandro Bottoni wrote:
> As a conclusion: would not be the time to start a project aimed to create a
> REAL replacement for MS IE, at least in the Linux environment? I do not
> think we should run after MS, accepting its standards violations, but we
> cannot keep on criminalising the user that does not understand "why using MS
> IE is just a plain bad thing"... We should accept this challenge and produce
> something equivalent/better/different/comparable to IE. Am I wrong?
> 
> Let me know what you think about it.

If we can not succeed in making Mozilla/Konqy 'technically superior' and a
worthy, competing product, we would not succeed in making a proper IE clone
either.

I'd rather see devotion to one of those two projects than yet another
browser.

www.mozilla.org
www.kde.org

Rob
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