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From: Marc Slemko <marcs@worldgate.com>
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Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Netscape to give away Communicator source code
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How many security holes will be found after the release of the source?

I would have thought that the current 4.0 code would have bits licensed
from toher vendors which would not be freely distributable in source, but
perhaps they worked a deal with them or are replacing those bits.

It isn't often you can say this, but I would really have to say that a
move of this type (_if_ it actually goes through as they claim, which is
still a big if) is unprecedented.  We have seen companies release code and
make it freely available for projects of a similar scale, but not really
anything that was current and the same sort of market leader.  Microsoft,
does, of course have a lot to do with this.

So, what are the chances that MS will release IE source? <G>

On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Manoj Kasichainula wrote:

> http://home.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease558.html?cp=nws01flh1
> 
> -- 
> Manoj Kasichainula - manojk at io dot com - http://www.io.com/~manojk/
> "If you tell a lie 40 times, it becomes the truth." -- Turkish proverb
>