From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Oct 31 01:14:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA00973 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 01:14:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00966 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 01:14:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA02209; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 19:44:13 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id TAA16538; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 19:44:12 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981031194412.P28493@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 19:44:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Wes Peters Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) References: <199810302253.PAA10713@usr05.primenet.com> <19981031124827.F5846@freebie.lemis.com> <363A9508.88E83535@softweyr.com> <19981031153759.H28493@freebie.lemis.com> <363AB79D.3B7CC8EF@softweyr.com> <19981031175022.M28493@freebie.lemis.com> <363ABC57.32CF8FEC@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <363ABC57.32CF8FEC@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 12:29:27AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 31 October 1998 at 0:29:27 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> Wes Peters wrote: >> >>> I guess we're moving towards a consensus here: an installer needs to >>> exist for the product, but may be created by either the vendor or >>> a FreeBSD contributor. Agreed? >> >> Yes, if this is a criterion for the badge. I still want an also-ran's >> page. >> > > Me too. Let's be nice and call it a "work in progress" page. Sure, I wasn't really going to call it "also ran". > As was noted before, once somebody's got it working, it's not that > much of a leap to get SOMEONE to write a port kit for it, if the > demand for the application exists. Agreed. We could also have pointers to people who have had success manually, but who haven't made a port. 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