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Select LanguageEnglish | Dutch | Spanish | French | Czech | DanishWWW browser for DOSArachne is graphical WWW browser for DOS compatible operating systems. Arachne is optimized to be used with OpenDOS - free and 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system, available for download at Caldera UK.Arachne will run on i8086 compatible CPU with 480 KB (or 550 KB if you want to run PPP) of DOS low memory and EGA or VGA video card. Recommended configuration is 80386 or better CPU with 4 or more MB of memory, 512 kB VESA compatible SVGA card and color monitor. Arachne supports subset of HTML/4.0 specification. Developed by xChaos software. The package includes freeware PPP dialer, MPEG and WAV players, etc. Download ArachneAfter finishing download create new directory (ie. C:\ARACHNE\), select it as working directory, copy the downloaded file to it and execute it - it's self-extracting archive. Than execute batch setup.bat.Screen ShotIn Cyberspace near Altavista was observed unidentified browsing object.BrowsercounterIt may be interesting to see which browsers access our server most often - check our Browsercounter, configured by Hynek Med.Mailing listThere is Arachne mailing list available on listserv@main.naf.cz. Send e-mail saying subscribe arachne in message body to this address. Then you can send articles to mailing list arachne@main.naf.cz and also recive all messages from this mailing list. If you wish to unsubscribe, send e-mail to listserv@main.naf.cz, with unsubscribe arachne in the body.RegistrationArachne WWW browser is distributed as free software package of shareware and freeware utilites. However, some of the features of the browser itself are restricted in unregistered version. Click here to display information about registering. If you are interesting in reselling Arachne, please contact sales@main.naf.cz.Links to the world - informationsLinks to the world - entertainmentLinks to Czech Republic (in english)Links to Czech Republic (in czech/encoding "kamenici")Access counterYou may just see picture, which may have something to do with the number of visitors of this page since release of Arachne 1.05 on 19th April 1997. Copyright (c)1997 xChaos software (TM)Prague, Czech Republic, EuropeAll rights reserved. e-Mail: sales@main.naf.cz Last modified: 14th February 1998
| Michael "xChaos" Polák, author of Arachne
It may seem, that those who criticise Microsoft corporation and
their monopolist tricks are just one of the groups of permanently angry
people who complain about everything in the world.
Well, the problem is much more complex. Visit pages called
Boycott Micro$oft to learn more
about this problem. Of course, I can't say I completely agree with everything
what this community of anti-Microsoft people publish - I don't think that
Microsoft should be forced to publish Windows source code, for example. I
think, that simple applying of the laws should work too. It's obvious, that
we are not allowed to buy everything in the world - even if both
buyer and seller wish to do such transaction. We cannot legaly hire someone
to kill someone else, for example. I think Microsoft (and everyone else)
shouldn't be allowed to acquire competing companies. Microsoft in fact pay
programmers to stop development of certain software. I think all
countries need laws to prevent monopoly from buying it's competitors.
People like me don't mind Microsoft or anyone else
being successful. We just want to see more than one successful
software company. My opinion is that operating systems manufactured by
different companies should be compatible, and that customers should have
chance to choose operating system. Windows are not succesful because of
being advanced technology - they are successful because Microsoft spent
billions of dollars to make you feel like "everyone is using Windows, so
I have to use them too".
Today, when many software products can be used for free (like Linux
operating system or Apache WWW server)
it can seem strange to require registration fee for WWW browser. I am
going to try to explain you my reasons.
I really like the GNU public license concept. In future, I want
to write GNU applications and sell asociated services, not my software.
But GNU is fitting Unix world. Unix is modular system, where programmer
can specialize on writing single, highly optimized piece of code and it will
be included as a part of a system. Unix (and mainly Linux) programmers
found out, that this is the best way to go. But Arachne is not Unix program
- it is in fact Unix client for computers running DOS. Development
of Arachne was not so easy as it would be in Unix world, and was possible
only because I gave up any full time or part time job.
I could afford it because I am student. But now I am waiting for some
revenue. If there is no profit from writing Arachne,
I will probably not continue with the development
of the browser. There are other things I would like to try...
So - if you are using Arachne and like it and want to see improvements,
think about registering. I hope the registration fee is low enough.
When I first encountered Internet, I thought to myself: this invetion
will change life on Earth. It's as great, as Gutenberg's invention of
printing. Invention of printing directly led to worldwide spread of
democracy. Invention of internetworking will lead to global anarchy.
I'm partly amazed, partly scared by this process. But we shouldn't be
afraid of it. Let's make Internet available to everyone, not only
to elite, owning most powerful computers. People must be able to
publish really everything - no one should be put in prisson just for
using the word "fuck" (or comparable image ;-) on WWW page.
Two years before, at school, my e-mail account was disabled for using
czech equivalent of word "shit" in news post.
(It was in quoted text from message
I was replying to). This was the moment, where I told to myslef: My God,
don't let such people control Internet! And please note that I am atheist
(most of the time...)
There are much more important problems for world politicans to solve,
than censoring Internet.
I don't want to see the forests destroyed. I don't want to watch people
killing each other in TV news.
Why we are not doing something about it ? If one speaks about
these problems, other people usually just think that there's someting
wrong about his/her sex life, or consider thinking about such problems
childish. Maybe I am really childish, but I am offering space on this
page to people, who really have something important to say.
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