From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 8 13:57:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140EE14D29 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:57:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (ind.alcatel.com 2.3 [OUT])) id NAA04121; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:55:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id NAA00340; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:55:49 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA15667; Fri, 8 Oct 99 13:55:25 PDT Message-Id: <37FE5A4C.E2086B96@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 14:55:40 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: dwilde1@thuntek.net, Michael Kenneth Henry , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An article from Microsoft References: <19991008003859.BFB6014BB7@hub.freebsd.org> <37FD4D1E.62F585E8@thuntek.net> <37FD89FB.A73DC41@newsguy.com> <37FDD981.734B902D@thuntek.net> <37FE04F9.B428F3B5@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Donald Wilde wrote: > > > > "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > > > > Ah, but we are not restricting ourselves to the Open Source EDA > > > packages, are we? There are commercial EDAs available. > > > > > That will run on FreeBSD? Tell me more! > > I don't know about FreeBSD. The article discusses Linux, and that's > what I'm discussing in this thread, in freebsd-advocacy. It's > off-topic, but it's off-topic from the first message. What do we > care what Microsoft says about Linux, as far as freebsd-advocacy > goes? Not necessarily. To a great extent, Linux apps *are* FreeBSD apps, and advocacy of open systems is FreeBSD advocacy. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message