Re: netscape security hole
Tom Allard wrote:
>
> reznaeous@earthlink.net said:
>
> > > Please read the Debian Social Contract policy:
> > > http://www.debian.org/social_contract
> > >
> > > If you want to see which packages do exist in Debian, refer to:
> > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
> >
> > I went and looked at that page, and lo and behold there's a whole slew of
> > Netscape packages. Just like the ones I've used to install Netscape onto
> > my systems. Oh, wait a minute. Those *are* the packages I used.
>
> Well, you looked at the packages, but not the social_contract,
As I've said in another post, yes I did read it.
> specifically:
>
> 5.Programs That Don't Meet Our Free-Software Standards
>
> ... We have created "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our FTP
> archive for this [non-free] software. The software in these
> directories is not part of the Debian system, although it has been
> configured for use with Debian. ...
And as I said in that same other post, why not take the packages off of the
server and go with an installation package such as used for RealPlayer?
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| everything is of great understanding,
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