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? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Someone's trying to hack into our server." "Wow... How flattering!" "I know. There must be some mistake." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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