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  1. 04-22-2008 #11
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    A lot of ressources makes for a lot of mess. Who needs eye-candy? Use Vista for only a small time and you'll see what I mean. Anyway, here's a review - didn't come out too hot, although to be fair it was only a Beta.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Manchunian View Post
    A lot of ressources makes for a lot of mess. Who needs eye-candy? Use Vista for only a small time and you'll see what I mean. Anyway, here's a review - didn't come out too hot, although to be fair it was only a Beta.
    Thanks for the review link.

    First off, Pogo is Windows-only, and AT&T makes no indication that it will be available for the Mac anytime soon (or ever).
    I guess that answers the question for Linux users, too.
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    Just another thing to make Windows crash!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ozar View Post
    It's my understanding that this browser is based on Firefox, so if some really good features are implemented by AT&T, maybe the Firefox folks will eventually incorporate them into the default browser.
    IANAL, but won't that mean that a lot of this will be infected by the GPL, which means that it should be possible to get your hands on the source code?
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    cant you get different licenses for different parts of the programn?
    if so all they would have to give out the source code for only the firefox base not all the extra features.
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    A browser that needs more resources than most modern games... Gotta love it
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    I read that Ars article a few days ago and I can only think: "Oh my, if all programs are going to require this many resources in a few years, my laptop will only work to run something like notepad or gedit".

    There's eye candy and then there is just useless and nonfunctional. To me, the Pogo browser crosses that line into the nonfunctional.
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    Quote Originally Posted by smolloy View Post
    IANAL, but won't that mean that a lot of this will be infected by the GPL, which means that it should be possible to get your hands on the source code?
    Well Firefox isn't GPL'd, it's under the Mozilla Public Licence so it's not an issue. It is more permissive to this type of development as far as I am aware.
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