From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Oct 26 21:49:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12912 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 21:49:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA12899 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 21:49:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from mercury (mercury [129.127.36.44]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id QAA05755; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:19:00 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by mercury; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/27Nov97-0404PM) id AA08291; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:18:59 +1030 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:18:58 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Drew Baxter Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 for Linux In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981026231058.009a5ee0@genesis.ispace.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Drew Baxter wrote: > I get the tip of the iceberg thing. Right now Corel is experimenting by > porting to Linux. If we bombard them with "Hey port it to...." then that > would not be very fair to them yet. Especially if the Linux version will > work under FreeBSD in emulation. Ah, okay. I see your point, but I think responses which are politely worded and courteous (i.e. not "You idiots, linux sucks, you should be porting to freebsd!!!". Religious zealotry WILL scare people off), thank them for their decision to support the free software community (companies supporting linux /do/ help freebsd by association as a fellow open source OS, esp. if they're binary-compatible), etc, and happen to mention that FreeBSD is a potential market they can look into, will have a positive effect. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message