From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Mar 22 23:10:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (pm3-36.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED8815369 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:10:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA01858; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:07:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:07:42 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda To: Brian Adkins Cc: Brett Glass , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990323010146.00fbf1c0@mailbox.iwaynet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Brian Adkins wrote: > Brett, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but if you want folks to take you > seriously, you're going to have to stop making such outlandish statements. > If you really think developers will "NEVER" target a platform because an > emulator exists, you're clueless. And as far as "irreparably destructive", > you're losin' it dude. Look at Netscape, or Oracle for that matter. It was hard enough to get them to port to Linux, but, with a perfectly working Linux emulator, do you really think that they'd publically release a FreeBSD version knowing full well that their Linux binaries should run fine on FreeBSD? - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message