On Sunday 15 June 2003 04:04, Ray Olszewski wrote: [...] > > >My preferred browser is Opera, which I believe uses Qt (and I notice > > doesn't come with Debian, but that may be because of Opera's own > > licensing terms). > > It definitely is a license issue. Opera isn't Open Source or Free Software > by any stretch of the imagination, so it is not even close to DFSG > compliant. > > If commercial distros like Red Hat and Mandrake do include it, I'd be > curious as to the terms under which it is provided (since Opera appears to > be shareware, with an ad-ware sort-of-free-price variant). > [...]
I don't think RedHat include it in their latest distro, Debian certainly don't, but it can be downloaded as a RPM or DEB from Opera's site. I currently use the adware version (and put up with the ads) simply because I like the way the browser works. In the old days under Windows 3.1, I infinitely preferred to *pay* for a registered copy of Opera rather than use MSIE ;) When I converted to Linux, I was stuck with using Netscape (which I found very clunky) until Opera ported to Linux (since Galeon, Mozilla and Konq weren't around/developed at that time). cr - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
