On 2009/06/27 04:39, frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 06:02:12PM -0600, Duncan Patton a Campbell said > that > > It would be nice to have Opera without the Linux baggage. > > > > Who would I nag at Opera for this to be accomplished? > > now before the release probably nobody :] > last thing on their mind is to support more builds > when they just finished with gcc2.95 as well. > > i'll be writing some people after the release > is done. > > i wonder how many people use opera on openbsd...
Fewer than the number of people who would use it if worked on amd64 and MP machines running OpenBSD. Last time I used Opera I quite liked it but I'm not going to switch browsers when I switch OS arch (e.g. between my i386 laptop and my main machine which runs amd64), I just don't see enough benefits to do this for a web browser. (textmaker/planmaker is a different story though :-) On 2009/06/27 02:40, Aaron W. Hsu wrote: > > I wonder how many people would use it if there were a native build > with a proper license that would permit redistribution of the > packages and such on CD-ROM. Would these packages be distributed with > the CDs? Asking them to change license while also asking to provide binaries for another OS is far too much in one go. Besides, adding a new OS is "just" a technical and support issue, changing license is a very pervasive legal issue, often involving contracts with other companies etc. Usually a much more difficult thing to get changed. On 2009/06/27 03:16, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcf...@sacrideo.us> wrote: > > > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:39:58 -0400, frantisek holop <min...@obiit.org> > > wrote: > > > > > i wonder how many people use opera on openbsd... > > > > I wonder how many people would use it if there were a native build with a > > proper license that would permit redistribution of the packages and such > > on CD-ROM. Would these packages be distributed with the CDs? > > > > Aaron W. Hsu > > > What are you talking about? Opera is a proprietary close source > software. It would take a lot more than change of license for > Opera to be available on CD. It has to be Open Source project. It is up to the people building CDs to decide what they want to include. I think we may have some things in tools/ without source, though it's such a fiddle to find a working cdrom drive (I net-boot everything) that I can't check that easily. :-)
