Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:44:44 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000815194145.68978G-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <20000815183336.J40029@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, j mckitrick wrote: > | Yep. Forcing their customers (against overwhelming customer demand > | according to EE Times) to use only Sun or NT. > > Many would prefer linux or BSD? > Oh, also HP/SGI/Alha. Or see newer versions supported or support not droped. See the stereotypes I listed for what is used on what. > | 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? > In which case explain all the Xilinx tools that are available on Sun? > | 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? > Right. As said, it's in practice a pre-requisite. > > > 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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