Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:20:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: stuyman@confusion.net (Laurence Berland) Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters), fpawlak@execpc.com (Frank Pawlak), jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You've lost it (was Re:No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD :Linux) :: Message-ID: <200007121720.KAA20583@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3967D830.F8F0E918@confusion.net> from "Laurence Berland" at Jul 08, 2000 09:41:04 PM
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> > >So we must not let this happen to FreeBSD, we must have native > > >support!!! How do we get this? We implement the FreeBSD api on Linux, > > >so that people will write to FreeBSD instead. Great! But, let's think > > >for a second. If it's bad to use emulators, if it hurts your platform > > >of choice, then why on earth do you think that a Linux user would be > > >fooled into using FreeBSD emulation? > > > > Because they will mistake it for a feature. > > At a bare minimum that's a naive assumption, and at worst it's an insult > to the intelligence of Linux users. Just because they don't prefer the > OS that you and I prefer doesn't mean they aren't smart enough to see > this as what it is. The only reason they would adopt this emulation is > if we can show them real gain through its use. If nothing else, this is > a chicken-and-egg problem. They wont want it until they can run FreeBSD > apps that dont have linux ports, which wont exist until they use the > FreeBSD emulator, which they won't get until the apps exist... There are FreeBSD applications which do not exist on Linux. The entire world is not Open Source yet (thank God). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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