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Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?)
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Brett Glass wrote:
>  
> I'm certainly not going to trust a mission-critical, or even important,
> application to emulation. I want to be able to get high-quality
> commercial software which has been compiled and tested for the native
> API and is supported on the platform I'm running. And that means native
> code.

If that is generally true, then the existence of Linux binary support
will not deter vendors from porting to FreeBSD, because customers will
not be using their products with the Linux layer.


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