Redhat made netscape 4 obsolete actually. But...... it's still too
popular, and many ppl will complain why it disappeared from Mandrake if
there were no prior announcement......
Abel Cheung
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Sunday 25 February 2001 13:40, Ron Stodden wrote:
> > Ed Wilts wrote:
> > > I find it amazing that Mandrake will ship Netscape, binary only, when
> > > there is a good GPL alternative (Konqueror) but will not ship a freely
> > > distributable binary-only driver for which there is no alternative short
> > > of replacing the hardware.
> >
> > Konqueror is not a replacement for Netscape. Konqueror does not do
> > email, newsgroups, or let you compose web pages.
>
> True, but add Kmail, Quanta (or Bluefish or a few others) and Knode or Pan
> and you do have true open source equivalents for the rest.
>
> In today's releases, Netscape should no longer be considered mandatory.
>
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