[83321] in Cypherpunks
Re: Censorware Summit Take II, from The Netly News
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Adams)
Fri Jul 18 12:20:18 1997
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:37:02 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
From: John Adams <jadams@seahawk.navy.mil>
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Cc: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com,
tomw@netscape.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970717200041.0072b488@netcom10.netcom.com>
Reply-To: John Adams <jadams@seahawk.navy.mil>
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
> Nothing wrong with releasing a GNU browser, but you will find it difficult
> to impossible to match the features of a modern browser such as
> Communicator and MSIE. Some may be happy with Lynx. Myself and most
> consumers will stick with Communicator and MSIE.
Is there any particular reason that NCSA's Mosaic is being ignored? Sure,
it's not GNU (hence not free to *everyone*) but it's out there, and it
works.
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