From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 15 10:33:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE5737BE49 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:33:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13Okam-000ApE-00; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:33:36 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA40795; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:33:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:33:36 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000815183336.J40029@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000815181507.G40029@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200008151729.KAA03230@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200008151729.KAA03230@mindspring.com>; from jhix@mindspring.com on Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:29:18AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org | 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