From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 7 16:37:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD3737B5CB for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:37:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA02947; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:37:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAACaqQf; Mon Aug 7 16:37:06 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA07470; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:37:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200008072337.QAA07470@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: www.tucows.com messed up with BSD link To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 23:37:02 +0000 (GMT) Cc: fjrm@yahoo.com (Francisco Reyes), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000804094036.05078a20@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Aug 04, 2000 09:43:02 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Reminds me of what Borland said when I asked if they would > port their Delphi compiler to FreeBSD. Their marketing > manager replied, "Which distribution of Linux is that?" > > Alas, Borland has been more guilty than most of jumping > on bandwagons and ignoring better opportunities. That's why > they devoted all of their resources to Windows, and nearly > lost the entire company by doing so. Heh. I remember when I found a grevious bug in their C library, worked dilligently to create a fix, and then told them I would trade the fix for a T-shirt. They didn't want to part with the T-shirt, so I didn't part with the fix; it cost me significantly more than a T-shirt worth of time to fix the frigging thing... Borland has always been a bit strange; for me to have the C library and source and wherewithal to do the fix, I had to have been using their tools a long time, been very familiar with them, paid for the highest-end version of their tools, and otherwise been a good customer of theirs. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message