Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:49:38 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A fortune(6) candidate (was: No port of Opera?) Message-ID: <396A9952.2B9851D9@mail.ptd.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706190153.04838520@localhost> <53082.962927902@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706103005.00e05660@localhost> <53082.962927902@localhost> <20000706174440.A8752@sofia.csl.sri.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706190153.04838520@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706201432.04823970@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: > > But some in the Linux camp are likely to > mistakenly believe that emulation is good for FreeBSD, just as > some here do. And these people may say, "Look! They're emulating us! > We've got to stop that!" If this occurs, they may try to make emulation > difficult -- perhaps via patents, perhaps via tightening the > licensing, or perhaps by making the API a moving target (a la > Microsoft). In any event, as long as FreeBSD relies upon emulation > to run key apps, it's a real risk. If this is a real threat, then it is also a threat to a FreeBSD emulator running on Linux. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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