Aha, Larry has pointed out something very interesting. Mosaic and the rest of the software are not open source. If open source software was used to create Internet Explorer, then at minimum M$ would have to acknowledge that fact.
John Hebert --- Larry Braud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the info from Internet Explorer, Help, About > Internet Explorer: > "Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was > developed at the National Center > for Supercomputing Applications at the University of > Illinois at > Urbana-Champaign. > Distributed under a licensing agreement with > Spyglass, Inc. > Contains security software licensed from RSA Data > Security Inc. > Portions of this software are based in part on the > work of the Independent > JPEG Group. > Multimedia software components, including Indeo(R); > video, Indeo(R) audio, > and Web Design Effects are provided by Intel Corp. > Unix version contains software licensed from > Mainsoft Corporation. Copyright > (c) 1998-1999 Mainsoft Corporation. All rights > reserved. Mainsoft is a > trademark of Mainsoft Corporation. > Warning: This computer program is protected by > copyright law and > international treaties. Unauthorized reproduction or > distribution of this > program, or any portion of it, may result in severe > civil and criminal > penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum > extent possible under the > law." > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chopin Cusachs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 6:39 AM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Wired: "Did MS Pay for > Open-Source Scare?" > > > > > > If you glance quickly, or your computer is slow > enough, > > when opening Internet Explorer, you see an > acknowledgement > > fly by -- that it's based on Mosaic, freeware > produced by a > > team headed by the gentleman who went on to found > Netscape. > > > > Microsoft hates open source as long as it doesn't > use it. > > > > Of course the name Kerberos is apt, the guard dog > from > > Greek mythology. > > > > Choppy > > > > At 10:15 AM 6/5/02 -0500, you wrote: > > > > >The login process for Windows 2000 is handled by > an > > >open source program known as Kerberos, you may > > >recognize that name as it is also used in most > Linux > > >distributions. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
