Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 22:18:04 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: ggm@connect.com.au (George Michaelson), cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/staroffice - Imported sources Message-ID: <19970412221804.HN09059@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199704110220.LAA08535@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Apr 11, 1997 11:50:42 %2B0930 References: <16076.860724321@connect.com.au> <199704110220.LAA08535@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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As Michael Smith wrote: > Because StarDivision are a small company, and a group of their > employees have gone out on a limb and done the Linux port at obviously > considerable personal credibility risk. Not only this, they did it ``under the carpet'', without the blessing of their management, just since they were happy Linux users at home. Only quite some time later, when there was something that actually ran, they offered it to their management as a viable alternative, and eventually got accepted. > ... is much less daunting than "please hire another > programmer and have them work for several months porting your product > to another O/S so that I will buy it". Although i don't think it would require that long for a native FreeBSD port, either. One of their employees once wrote a report for a German magazine about the Linux port, and i think most of their problems were related to g++ bugs or omissions. Nevertheless, the Linux port only happened since these employees were eager to not give up, thus as long as none of them is using FreeBSD, i don't think there will be a remote chance of seeing a FreeBSD-native port. If they mention that it's running as well under FreeBSD, that's probably our marketing chance. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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