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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (18575)	4/17/1998 8:17:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) of 24154

The reason why NSCP has to give away source code is because they didn't pursue a truly modular design in the first place. Oh yeah, Reggie. IE, so modular, it's integrated! Or is it, so integrated, it's modular? Depends on context, right? IE is a bunch of objects. That programmers can customize at will? Is there some new Microsoftese definition of customize I'm unaware of? IE stuff can be linked into arbitrary places, sure. That's not customization. You're delivering (reliably as usual) the Microsoft company line on the reason for Netscape giving away source. We read it from Berlind too, and of course from the marketing peers when it was announced. If that was the only reason, nobody much would care, or be interested in the source at all. But it's always good to hear the company line reiterated, helps keep track of where people are coming from. Cheers, Dan.

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