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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:58:36 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape browser
Message-ID:  <36F78FFC.4F0C9BEC@newsguy.com>
References:  <Your message of "Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:36:10 MST." <4.2.0.32.19990322132103.03f66150@localhost> <4.2.0.32.19990322141525.00a82b00@localhost>

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Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> You're correct that it is far too late to undo the damage to the
> platform that has been caused by emulating another more popular
> one -- a strategy that IBM showed to be almost suicidal. However,
> FreeBSD may be able to recoup some native application support by
> creating an emulator for Linux. This is what we should do next.
> Otherwise, we'll have NOT native application support now or in
> the foreseeable future. We'll have made it such a bad business
> proposition to do a natively compiled app that it just won't happen.

Brett, did ANYTHING *EVER* happened because someone was *asking* for
it to happen in the FreeBSD community?

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dcs@freebsd.org

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