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List:       kde
Subject:    RE: How about a IE clone for Linux?
From:       "Timothy R. Butler" <kde () uninetsolutions ! com>
Date:       2000-03-19 5:10:18
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> If only Richard were here....  Remember not to confuse "free" as in
> liberty with "free" as in "gratis".  Getting your software without
> paying for it is great, but money makes the world go round.  I'm not
> afraid to pay for my applications, if paying insures that work continues
> in a timely manner, and the software is advanced.
>
> I would never ever call IE "free".

 Ah, yes, RMS - well - don't bring RMS into this unless (1) you are willing
to call Linux "GNU/Linux" (anyone who has ever spoken to RMS and mentioned
Linux knows this by heart), (2) willing to admit KDE is not free (until KDE
2.0 and QT 2.0 - and then only "kinda sorta"), (3) acknowledge the term open
source is very deceiving and wrong.
 However, I will speak RMS-speak. I meant IE is free as in gratis, whereas
Opera has less features and is neither free nor gratis. So IE seems like the
lessor of the two evils here.

  -Tim

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>
> > they'll
> > recommend a browser that not only isn't open source, but also costs $$$
> > (Opera).
>
> Some people do that, but not me.  I can't stand Opera.  I don't like
> window in window MDI.  I don't like the lack of features.  If I wanted
> light, I'd use lynx.  I frequently do use lynx.  (Sometimes I even use
> "nc", hows that for light!!)  Most of the time I use netscape, though I
> don't recommend it.  When people ask me what I _like_, I tell them that
> "I don't like any of the currently available browsers, but mozilla could
> change that."
>
> MSG
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