Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1156 mails)

[xerxes1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andy Galerneau)]

Hi all,

I agree that some manpages are worse than useless - however - I take
exception to some of the ideas expressed about Netscape.  

Netscape was one of the few commercial companies to take Linux seriously
in the beginning.  By supporting Linux (in an unsupported way), they
were one of many components that gave this OS the push it needed to
grow.  Also, keep in mind that they allowed us to use their creative
work at no charge.  

If anything, I think we need to support Netscape in every way possible. 
Keep in mind that there is no such thing as a completely "free" ride -
someone eventially has to pay the price.  I personally think it's very
fair that Netscape keeps possession of the code refinements, etc.  

Just my .02 [rant <g>] 

Andy

Zoki wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 May 1998, Dana J. Laude wrote:
> ->
> ->I've been watching this thread, and although Tim is guilty of not
> ->digging a little deeper for the howtos and such, he does also have
> ->a valid point.  Most of the man pages and howtos are WAY out
> ->of date and provide minimal valuable information 

> I had a look on the conditions Netscape is imposing on using the code of
> Communicator. If I understood well, anybody changing the code and adding
> features is supposed to "give" this to Nestcape who reserves the right
> to use it in the Communicator suite...and in it's commercial software.
> Who said abuse? You let thousends of geeks work on your product for free
> and than you use it to earn money with...without paying anything to the
> ones who actually did the work. This is plain modern time slavery.
>

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