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From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
cc: Jonathan Clark <jc@crack.com>, hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: X11 game ABUSE, currently only available for Linux because , a , lack of hardware resources... can someone help ? 
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On Fri, 13 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> It's not worth it for the FreeBSD project.  I've already talked with
> Dave Taylor a bit about this and came to the conclusion that if we
> wanted to run Abuse, we'd be better off running the Linux version
> than in trying to tilt at the various windmills inside crack.com.
>
> Face facts, folks.  They like Linux there, they're motivated to port
> to Linux and that's about 100% more than you get from most DOS game
> companies so why not simply "go with the flow" as we like to say here
> in the states?  Let them do their Linux ports and we'll treat them as
> a challenge for the Linux emulator.
> 
> Mind you, if somebody here really WANTS to give crack.com a FreeBSD
> box in hopes that they'll actually power it up and port to it, well, I
> certainly won't stand in the way but that's strictly between the
> generous donor and crack.com.  Please leave me out of the loop!

Ok, was just an idea...

	Andreas ///

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