robin wrote: > > > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > >> 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. >> > Just out of curiosity, why 4.* not 6.*? I installed Netscape 6.2 on > our office machine (partly so Windows users could use something > familiar, partly because of KMail's all-or-nothing policy about > deleting mail from the POP server). It's a bit of a RAM-eater, but > quite nice apart from that, and much better than that horrible buggy 6.0. > > Robin > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Well, 6 is pretty much the same as Mozilla, with fewer bugs in Mozilla and no pop-up ads or links to sell your secrets by AOL, plus it takes up a huge amount of space and we are already 3cds full, and Java is separable, not supplied as part of the package, and finally we have no agreement to distribute it. It isn't even on the Commercial CDs last I looked.
Netscape is there because we need a java-enabled browser compatible with most sites. No one is really building sites to be Netscape 6 compatible (5% market share) though they still try to be compatible most times with netscape 4. The future belongs to Konqueror and/or Mozilla or the various gecko engine browsers like Galeon, insofar as free software goes. Opera and Netscape 6 are not free and will probably find a place on the commercial CDs if there is adequate demand. We do occasional browser polls on Mandrakeforum to gauge such demand, so it might be a good idea if you go there occasionally. Civileme
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