From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jul 7 21:25: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 111B537B563; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:24:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 62EA11C70; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 00:24:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 00:24:57 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Ignacio Cristerna Cc: Brett Glass , Frank Pawlak , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows))) Message-ID: <20000708002457.F4034@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000707004910.046d9ab0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from ignacioc@avantel.net on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 08:57:59AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 08:57:59AM -0500, Ignacio Cristerna wrote: > I, for one, am with Brett on this one. FreeBSD needs native ports or it will > always be a niche product in a niche market. Brett, you said it like a > prophet. I hope you are not one: I donīt want the diablito to die; I just > love it! We'd all like more native ports, no-one disagrees with that. We just see different ways of getting them. Please don't say you are "with Brett" unless you agree with his FSF-like tactics[1] as well. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect / Computer Horizons Corp - CHIMES e-mail: billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org 1. "If you don't distribute source, we'll make it so you can't distribute a binary." sounds to me an awful like "If you don't make a FreeBSD port, we'll rip out the emulation layer that allows your software to work." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message