Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 07:27:50PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote: > > One good solution to 'Netscape isn't free' was to write a free > > replacement. > Oh? Which browser in the archive is a suitable free replacement for > Netscape, written from scratch? :) Mozilla was completely written from scratch, after most of a year of wrangling with the Navigator 4.x hairball Netscape spat out: <http://www.gerbilbox.org/newzilla/general/general04.php> (Note that even "ah, but it wasn't a *complete* rewrite!" serves the argument that free software needs the right to fork.) -- \ Hercules Grytpype-Thynne: "Well, Neddie, I'm going to be | `\ frank." Ned Seagoon: "Right, I'll be Tom." Count Moriarty: | _o__) "I'll be Gladys." *slap* -- The Goon Show, _World War I_ | bignose@zip.com.au F'print 9CFE12B0 791A4267 887F520C B7AC2E51 BD41714B
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