>On Sun August 10 2003 10:34, James K. Lowden wrote:
>>  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.

Nate Hill wrote:

>Telnet.
>
>Considering the nature of Port 80, there never should nor ever will be
>a "web browser" in any NetBSD distribution set.
>

Then, in spite of its merits, we should NOT use HTML for essential 
documentation!

Dan Killoran