also sprach Rob Latham <rob@terizla.org> [2002.01.31.0359 +0100]: > and on a debian mailing list, "unrestricted access to source" is the > only "free" we care about. let opera pay for their own advertising > and evangelism. okay. but there's no browser alternative to opera. konqueror requires all the kde stuff, mozilla is to awkward here and there and way too slow, netscape6 is also non-free, skipstone and galeon don't provide some of the more advanced stuff i need. i think one of the most popular flaws of linux-fans is the downscaling of expectations and standards just to meet the open source ideals. i don't think you should support the capitalists any more than necessary, but you should also not harm your own productivity, or deal with less just because you cannot go non-free. i guess i also just trust opera to not do illegal stuff or anything behind my back. if they would, then they'd die, and i think it's one of their primary incentives to overtake micro$oft in all of performance, price, security, and legality. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck 1-800-psych hello, welcome to the psychiatric hotline. if you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2.
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