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Date:      Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:36:57 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Olof Johansson <offe@dawnrazor.campus.luth.se>
Cc:        "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Big win for BSD/OS compatibility 
Message-ID:  <2685.811985817@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Sep 1995 21:59:46 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.950924215829.347A-100000@dawnrazor.campus.luth.se> 

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That hasn't been my impression.  They haven't out-and-out said no or
indicated that FreeBSD would be out of the running due to being
"free."  A couple of netscape people came up to me at WC's booth at
USENIX and indicated that they ran FreeBSD themselves, so who knows?
:-)

					Jordan

> On Sun, 24 Sep 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > I'm currently talking with them (Netscape) about this very subject.
> > Apparently they need dlopen()/dlsym() functionality in Netscape 2.0
> > and this is not provided in BSDI 1.1, so there's a problem.
> > 
> > I'm now busily trying to talk them into doing both BSDI 2.0 and
> > FreeBSD 2.x native ports.. :-)
> 
> Ahem, didn't they say they wouldn't support 'free' OS:es, and that's why 
> Linux wasn't on the list? I wouldn't mind if you talked them into doing a 
> FreeBSD port though. :-)
> 
> 
> 						-Olof




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