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Subject:    RE: How about a IE clone for Linux?
From:       "Timothy R. Butler" <kde () uninetsolutions ! com>
Date:       2000-03-17 0:51:15
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I'm curious, Linux users (including myself) will lecture on why open source
is better, why free is better, etc. However, in the next breath (while these
users would never use the totally FREE, but not open source IE), they'll
recommend a browser that not only isn't open source, but also costs $$$
(Opera). I know everyone likes to side with the little guy, but aren't you
shooting yourself in the foot, by forcing yourself to use a non-free program
that has terrible JScript support?

  -Tim

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net
> [mailto:kde-request@lists.netcentral.net]On Behalf Of Espen Sand
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 3:49 AM
> To: KDE general mailing list
> Subject: Re: How about a IE clone for Linux?
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Rob Kaper wrote:
> >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
> >
>
> Well, hopefully Opera will be fast, use little memory and be easy
> to use. I am
> working on (read: improving) the interface these days ;-)
>
>
> --
> Espen Sand
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