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From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
To: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
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	"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux 
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Hi,

On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:

> I know this is probably a bad thing to do without full body abestos..
> but I'd have to agree with the other Brett here, sorta.

> But conversly I think it has overall been a bad thing for FreeBSD.  
> It discourages people from creating native fbsd binaries.  Look at the
> blade mp3 encoder.  Instead of lobbying the author to make a fbsd
> version once the BSD/OS one would no longer work, many people instead
> said oh let's just use the Linux version.

This has nothing to do w/ the emulator.  If people WANT FreeBSD binaries
then they have to ask and push and prod the author to give them to us.
If people don't push to have them we won't get them until we have a big
enough user base that the author thinks of it.  Having a FreeBSD emulator
for Linux doesn't alleviate the above situation at all.

Brett Taylor
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