From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 10 20:50:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail1.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5471637BECF for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:50:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 19949 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2000 03:50:09 -0000 Received: from du66.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.66) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 11 Jul 2000 03:50:09 -0000 Message-ID: <396A9952.2B9851D9@mail.ptd.net> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:49:38 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A fortune(6) candidate (was: No port of Opera?) 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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