Re: tlug: Netscape major 'OOPS'!

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I just downloaded and untar-gz'ed the netscape 4.5 for glibc tarball.
> > Inside it I found an RPM (?) of RealPlayer 5.0, packaged by Redhat.  This
> > is a commercial software package (at least, it has a commercial license
> > agreement).. what the heck's it doing in the netscape tarball??
> 
> Real Player is free but not Free, so they probably have some kind of
> agreement to distribute it, I would imagine.  In fact, Red Hat comes with a
> basic version of Real Audio server, too.  Or at least 5.0 for Intel did.  I
> don't have 5.1, but I'm sure somebody out there can confirm this.
> 
> Since Netscape is an investor in Red Hat, that probably helped swing the
> deal to put it in the Communicator tarball I guess.

well, it's irritating to me, since *I* have to take it OUT of the tarball
when making the TL RPMs... oh well.  4.5 glibc is still a memory hog, but
it seems like it's fairly non-leaky - ie, it gobbles ~20MB and stays at
that, and doesn't grow out of control like 4.06 glibc could/did.

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