Re: tlug: It works!

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Byrne <- 3Web <jq@example.com>> writes:

    Jonathan> The Japanized version of Netscape is really quite nice,
    Jonathan> and makes inquiring minds wonder why Netscape couldn't
    Jonathan> just do this themselves and ship it that way :-)

Probably has something to do with the number of licenses they could
sell, and the amount of competition they faced.  Until two three years 
ago, my Institute would buy _one_ copy of software, then put the
original in a lending library to be used by anybody.  If that's the
practice in a "major international university" (haff, kack, kaff) and
I've heard similar stories about corporate sites, why spend money
developing for that market?

Also with the fact that the hack seems to change slightly with every
new version of Netscape.

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