1997-07-18 - Re: Censorware Summit Take II, from The Netly News

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From: John Adams <jadams@seahawk.navy.mil>
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-07-18 15:51:58 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:51:58 +0800

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From: John Adams <jadams@seahawk.navy.mil>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:51:58 +0800
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Censorware Summit Take II, from The Netly News
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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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