From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 16 8: 2:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ideaglobal.com (ultra2.ideaglobal.com [194.36.20.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E5E21501A for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 08:02:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kiril@ideaglobal.com) Received: (from kiril@localhost) by ideaglobal.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id PAA27212; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:57:00 +0100 (BST) From: Kiril Mitev Message-Id: <199906161457.PAA27212@ideaglobal.com> Subject: Re: Linux compat [was Re: Linux not FreeBSD?] To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:57:00 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Jun 16, 99 02:06:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > People who desire more native apps for FreeBSD need to talk to the > > vendors in question, not wait for some mysterious 3rd party to do the > > convincing. Somebody mentioned sybase, for example, and I've gotten > > some interest from the Sybase folks in the past when we've discussed > > the matter, but it always comes down to one thing: Customers. They > > want to talk to potential customers who will be voting with their > > wallets for the product, not some OS vendor who's simply trying to > > argue that it would be A Good Thing for them to do it. > > Is this the same Sybase that is *giving away* the Linux version of > their RDBMS? Sheesh. Yep. and that's why it is my personal pet peeve. (with apologies for airing it in public :-) Kiril > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message