From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Sep 23 15:18:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A544437B401 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:18:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from catflap.bishopston.net (mailhost1.bishopston.net [24.87.68.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3B743E6A for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:18:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamie@thompson.bishopston.net) X-Envelope-From: X-Envelope-To: Received: from thompson.bishopston.net (thompson.bishopston.net [IPv6:3ffe:b80:c3c:1::100]) by catflap.bishopston.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g8NMISOd081886 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:18:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@thompson.bishopston.net) Received: from thompson.bishopston.net (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by thompson.bishopston.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8NMIMj3071482 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:18:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@thompson.bishopston.net) Received: (from jamie@localhost) by thompson.bishopston.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g8NMILer071481 for freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:18:21 +0100 (BST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Jamie Jones To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: Opera press release Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:18:21 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200209232318.21194.jamie@host-997.news.landeg.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I believe you can use the license for the FreeBSD version too :). Ahhhh that's good news then! I understand the windows and linux license k= eys are different, so I assumed the FreeBSD one would be too. It just gets better and better! I remember in an advocacy thread a long time ago saying that I'd pay for a native FreeBSD version, but not a Linux version.. Well, I gave in.. The replies to my message asked me what a FreeBSD version would do that the Linux version doesn't. Also there was another long thread a while ago instigated by a "Brett" wh= o said that the Linux emulation layer effectively removes any need for a commercial company to release a FreeBSD specific version of a product.. Obviously, in this case, its (eventually) not true. In light of these 2 threads, I'd like to ask what the advantage of a Free= BSD version is (from a technical, not a PR point of view.. obvious its great = PR=20 news), and why Opera have decided to release a native FreeBSD version ? Anyone know, or have any ideas ? From my point of view, I feel its "clean= er" to run something native, that can hopefully take advantage of some of the FreeBSD features, but then, I sometimes can't escape these puritanical=20 thoughts whilst I'm stuck in my Ivory Tower :-) Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message