From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 23 8:27:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07AAA14CE7 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:27:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id JAA03303; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:26:49 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.32.19990323091824.03f94100@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.32 (Beta) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:24:21 -0700 To: Brett Taylor , Alex Zepeda From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:23 AM 3/23/99 -0700, Brett Taylor wrote: >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 the author has good business sense, pushing and prodding will not make a bit of difference. He or she will nod good-naturedly and tell folks to use the emulator. And then focus on the Linux version of the product. It is just not a good business proposition to release native binaries for FreeBSD with the emulator available. There is NO benefit. Zip. Nada. None. When the intelligent businessperson tells you that, Brett, what will you say? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message