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Re: [LUG] new IE7 feature - sounds familar

 

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 16:23 +0000, paul sutton wrote:
> Ok this is MS related, feature seems same as that in thunderbird,  only 
> thats been in that for ages.
> 
>     http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/124387

IE7/WinVista seem very short on original features in general - one that
comes to mind is their new installation system that *doesn't* spread
packages across your harddrive when you install them (much like other
operating systems have had since at least the eighties, then?).  And I'd
be quite impressed by its shiny appearance if I'd never seen MacOS X.

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 16:54:19 +0000, Ben Goodger wrote:
> No, seriously. I'll bet they even pinched some code from Gecko.
> 
What's the licence on Gecko, out of interest?  Can they use it without
violating the licence like they could with the BSD TCP/IP stuff?  Not
that I think they'd take any notice if they thought they'd get away with
it.

    Ben

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