Did you know Opera was Open Source? ;-)

Martin Schrode

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Jun 17, 2002, 4:04:27 AM6/17/02

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| IDG: How about just the idea of having an open source browser, the
| Opera Web browser for instance.! Is that beneficial to users or
| developers?
|
| Andreessen: How much (browser) market share does Opera have?
|
| IDG: Let's pretend Opera has a 93 percent market share. Does it make a
| difference that its code is open source?
|
| Andreessen: (Pause). I don't think so. For mass market adoption (open
| source) is clearly not compelling yet or (Opera) would have more
| adoption than it does. Other things are more important. Bundling with
| the (operating system) is clearly more important for adoption. When
| you're competing against something that's both being (promoted) by a
| monopoly and is free, good luck competing, have fun.
|
| My attitude is, everybody should try competing with Microsoft once in
| their life. Once.

My attitude is, if you don't know what you are talking about, you should
keep your mouth shut. ;-)

BillyNEthel

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Jun 17, 2002, 4:27:46 AM6/17/02

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On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:04:27 +0200, Martin Schrode <use...@schrode.net>
wrote:
[....]

>My attitude is, if you don't know what you are talking about, you should
>keep your mouth shut. ;-)

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr! NOT ALLOWED TO COMMENT!
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Martin Schrode

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Jun 17, 2002, 4:57:21 AM6/17/02

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* billn...@yahoo.con (BillyNEthel) wrote:

that's you freexone, isn't it? ;-)

Blinky the Shark

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Jun 17, 2002, 4:39:15 PM6/17/02

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Martin Schrode <use...@schrode.net> wrote in
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> * billn...@yahoo.con (BillyNEthel) wrote:
>
> that's you freexone, isn't it? ;-)

Headers look right.

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Peter Fjelsten

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Jun 17, 2002, 5:49:31 PM6/17/02

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Blinky the Shark:

Not again! Hey Pitkin - stick to the same address! I have other things
to do than to add you to my kill filter each week!

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Blinky the Shark

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Jun 17, 2002, 6:23:30 PM6/17/02

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Peter Fjelsten <nospamto...@adr.dk> wrote in
news:Xns9230F2306...@194.19.194.5:

> Blinky the Shark:
>
>> Martin Schrode <use...@schrode.net> wrote in
>> news:2a8kea...@schrode.net:
>>
>>> * billn...@yahoo.con (BillyNEthel) wrote:
>>>
>>> that's you freexone, isn't it? ;-)
>>
>> Headers look right.
>
> Not again! Hey Pitkin - stick to the same address! I have other
> things to do than to add you to my kill filter each week!

http://www.nfilter.org/ -- allows filtering on posting-host, which
seems to be consistently hinet.net.au, across the addresses he's
using . Depdends on if you want to go to the bother, or if it might
also be a useful utility for other cases as well. And, of course,
it would filter others posting from there, if there are any in
groups you frequent.

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Peter Fjelsten

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Jun 17, 2002, 9:36:37 PM6/17/02

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Blinky the Shark:

> http://www.nfilter.org/ -- allows filtering on posting-host, which
> seems to be consistently hinet.net.au, across the addresses he's
> using .

Thanks. But I'll wait until Luu implements this in XNews.