[arachne] Re: [a4dos-list] Re:Arachne Losing Ground
- From: "Glenn Gilbreath Jr." <wizard57m@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "arachne4dos@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <arachne4dos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 23:13:32 -0600
Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
Peter, and others who failed to read LD's
ENTIRE POST...
would you please, please...read it again! The
very last statement LD makes...
"Mein Gott!"
Where did LD say that would leave Arachne GPL
for DOS?
Now...don't you wish you had read the entire message
BEFORE you fired off your reply?
C U L8R!
Wiz <{;-)
At 12/30/99, you wrote:
>
>
>
>On ?, L. D. Best wrote:
>
>> Dateline May 2005 -- Ohio USA
>
>> It has become clear that the open source browser suite known as Arachne
>> [For DOS] is failing in the more and more difficult task of staying on a
>> par with the more popular and refined browsers and suites.
>
>> While Internet Explorer continues to issue updates and patches, the
>> Mozilla packages [Mozilla Suite, FireFox, ThunderBird] have issued
>> acknowledgement of security faults, and even MAC based products are
>> sending out updates and tweaks, Arachne developers have yet to be able
>> to issue a single security patch, close a single backdoor,
>
>So, Microsoft's SUCCESS rate is measured by how many self-inflicted
>problems it solves, not the number it lets through in the first place?
>
> or even come
>> up with a boiler-plate bot response to user e-mails.
>
>If anyone asked for that it would be dead easy, using DGIs and an APM
>scripting language. Why pick on something that wasn't requested as a
>measure?
>
>> Unless the development group for Arachne [For DOS] changes their
>> approach, it is obvious that their software will be worlds apart from
>> the majority of browsers/suites in use today, and their software will be
>> left standing alone ...
>
>But success cannot be measured by being me too. Otherwise Macs and Linux
>would be a failure by not being Microsoft, and so on. These people
>wouldn't be satisfied unless we repent on what we are after. Good
>editing is in large part what you leave OUT, not by aiming for creeping
>featuritis and concomitant bloat. PML.
>GST+NPT=JOBS
>
>I.e., a Goods and Services Tax (or almost any other broad based production
>tax), with a Negative Payroll Tax, promotes employme
>t.
>
>See http://member.netlink.com.au/~peterl/publicns.html#AFRLET2 and the other
>items on that page for some reasons why.
>
>-- Arachne V1.77+/B~5
Wizard57M
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