On Fri, 8 Aug 2003  <drkilloran@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> why, oh why do we NOT 
> have some rudimentary browser installed as a standard part of the 
> netBSD distribution?

There's no BSD-licensed browser, afaik.  I assume that's the reason.  We
distribute some GPL stuff with the base system, mostly development tools
(e.g. gcc, ld).  Others, like grep, are deemed essential for normal use
but expendable in production.  I guess lynx or the like never met the
"essential" criterion.  

--jkl