Maybe if they make an exception for Netscape, another good exception
would be Java...

doug


[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001):

>MandrakeSoft has a policy of not supplying closed-source software. In the
>download edition, the only exception to this rule (out of necessity) is
>Netscape
>4.
>
>
>On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 18:44:09 +0900, Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I installed the Java runtime environment and it was easy to do and works
>> fine. And now the Konqueror browser runs Applets too (better than IE 5.1
>> under OS X does, I might add, which is the only OS X browser so far to
>> support Java).
>> 
>> But why doesn't Mandrake Linux install the Java runtime environment to
>> start with? Surely everybody wants to use it, right?
>> 
>> doug
>
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>
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>your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no
>warning
>whatsoever, stop operating." -- Dave Barry
>
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