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5347: Clients based on Netscape 5?

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From: Greg Munt <greg@uni-corn.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 01:14:41 +0100 (GMT+0100)
Organization: Kanga.Nu
Received this today:

> Does anyone else think that this is going to be a TECHNICAL SUPPORT
> NIGHTMARE, once there are fifty million versions floating around out there?
> 
> http://www.netscape.com/communicator/free_faq.html?cp=nws01flh1
> 
> Will Netscape make Netscape Communicator 5.0 source code freely available? 
> 
> Netscape has announced that Communicator Standard Edition 5.0 source code 
> will be freely available for modification and redistribution. Netscape 
> believes that harnessing the creative abilities of all Internet developers
> will be an unprecedented way to advance the features and quality of
> Communicator for all customers. Detailed license terms, additional 
> information, and a developer version of Communicator Standard Edition 5.0 
> source code is scheduled to be available by March 31, 1998, on the 
> Netscape Web site. 
> 
> Please check this page on Friday, January 23 for more information. 

If this happens, could we see mud clients based on NS5? Or am I wandering 
in the dark, as usual?

--
Greg Munt, greg@uni-corn.demon.co.uk   "I'm not bitter - just twisted."
http://www.uni-corn.demon.co.uk/ubiquity/