Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 20:41:16 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: ggm@connect.com.au (George Michaelson), msmith@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/staroffice - Imported sources Message-ID: <E0wFWH7-0002zQ-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:50:42 %2B0930." <199704110220.LAA08535@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199704110220.LAA08535@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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In message <199704110220.LAA08535@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Michael Smith writes: : Because StarDivision are a small company, and a group of their : employees have gone out on a limb and done the Linux port at obviously : considerable personal credibility risk. Demanding another port of : them would be unlikely to enthuse them at all, especially when we : emulate the Linux ABI so well. ParcPlace hit this when they did the Linux OI port. It was a big pain in the butt and may have negatively impacted some later sales of the product. It was good press, but they didn't know how turn that into revenue. The politics of the situation may have changed, but when I was the first to do it a long time ago, it cost me a lot of political capital. I never did earn enough new capital to get the FreeBSD version released. Warner P.S. Yes, I am sure that we were first in the Linux marketplace. Metrolink was the first commercial vendor and had us beat by only a few weeks.
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