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Re: [LUG] 2 questions



On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 17:12, Neil Stone wrote:

> Tonsern Wilhelm wrote:
> | sorry for my poor English
> |
> | 1.Q: Is there a (logical) difference between "Netscape"(MS) and
> | "Mozilla"(Linux) ?
> 
> Yes... entirly different code base, one is open source the other is a
> pile of.. M$ code...

Neil, I think you need a bit more coffee, it looks like you are
confusing Netscape (Open Source, Identical to the Win32 version of
Mozilla, minus a few features and some eye candy[1], very similar to the
Linux version of Moz, allowing for OS architecture differences)
with IE, a nasty proprietary security hole running on your WIN32 
system just waiting for some bad man to feed it some funky data so it
can screw up your computer.

Netscape on Windows is basically Identical to Mozilla on Linux, apart
from some features and the bits that allow it to talk to the OS.

[1] But it doesn't have the Funky T-Rex Flasher graphic, so go with
Moz[2]

[2] Me, shallow? ;)

-- 
James 
jamesk[at]beeb[dot]net

"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer." Muhammad Ali

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