Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:33:36 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000815183336.J40029@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <200008151729.KAA03230@mindspring.com>; from jhix@mindspring.com on Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:29:18AM -0700 References: <20000815181507.G40029@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200008151729.KAA03230@mindspring.com>
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| Yep. Forcing their customers (against overwhelming customer demand | according to EE Times) to use only Sun or NT. Many would prefer linux or BSD? | Note that the engineer using Xilinx Foundation Series beside you really | doesn't have a choice. He *must* run Windows to use the foremost FPGA | development environment in the world. I know a lot of designers who | hate Windows but to do their jobs really have no choice. Maybe it's just a question of developer resources and market demand? | These companies are typically *very* protective of their revenues. This | situation is sometimes enforced by their investors. FlexLM is the | top license management scheme used by the EDA/CAD vendors. Once they | support a platform all the other LM's will "me-too" right behind them. Is this one of those systems where a license server only lets as many copies of the program run as there are licenses? jm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~ jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org ~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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