The trend for browsers seems to be towards bloatware. I'm of the school of thought that each application should do one thing, and do it well. Thus, I just want a stable, quality browser, not an unstable browser with a composer, mail program, newsreader, chat feature, etc. Unfortunately all of the major players seem to disagree; even Mozilla is a suite. -- Chris Long, Departments of Mathematics & Statistics, Rutgers University
From what I understand although Mozilla is free and open source it is *not* GPL. At the time the entire Mozilla project got started the impression I had was that Netscape was looking to get the open source community to do lots of free work for them; was I mistaken?
One of the biggest problems currently facing all operating systems, perhaps *the* biggest, is the lack of any decent open-source graphical browser that's under the GPL (or a decent variation of it). Considering how incredibly important the browser is (I'd consider it now the most important application) this is mind-boggling! -- Chris Long, Departments of Mathematics & Statistics, Rutgers University
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The trend for browsers seems to be towards bloatware. I'm of the school of thought that each application should do one thing, and do it well. Thus, I just want a stable, quality browser, not an unstable browser with a composer, mail program, newsreader, chat feature, etc. Unfortunately all of the major players seem to disagree; even Mozilla is a suite.
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Chris Long, Departments of Mathematics & Statistics, Rutgers University
From what I understand although Mozilla is free and open source it is *not* GPL. At the time the entire Mozilla project got started the impression I had was that Netscape was looking to get the open source community to do lots of free work for them; was I mistaken?
One of the biggest problems currently facing all operating systems, perhaps *the* biggest, is the lack of any decent open-source graphical browser that's under the GPL (or a decent variation of it). Considering how incredibly important the browser is (I'd consider it now the most important application) this is mind-boggling!
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Chris Long, Departments of Mathematics & Statistics, Rutgers University