Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 12:48:27 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jcwells@u.washington.edu Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) Message-ID: <19981031124827.F5846@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199810302253.PAA10713@usr05.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 10:53:12PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810281811510.7221-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <199810302253.PAA10713@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Friday, 30 October 1998 at 22:53:12 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >>> StarOffice on CD is probably not easy to install on FreeBSD; it's the >>> port that does that. If a port exists, and the manufacturer distributes >>> the package on his CD-ROM, then we should give him extra credit for >>> that, even if it's not a native FreeBSD port. >> >> Absolutely. This would fall under "Designed for". >> >> The communcation hangup here is in the definition of "native". Perhaps a >> vendor builds a FreeBSD software product. Maybe the vendor knows nothing >> of "FreeBSD Ports(tm)". I would still call this a "native port" because it >> was explicitly made to run on FreeBSD without emulation. The vendor gets >> the extra recognition. > > I would like to see three categories: > > o Can be made to run with effort > o Install tools, but non-native binaries > o Native binaries. You're late on the scene, Terry. This is exactly what I suggested several days ago. I think that others have made a valid point, though: if we include the first category, we don't give much incentive for them to take the relatively small step to the second category. I think we should refer to the first category in an also-ran web page, but not issue certificates unless they go at least to the second category. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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