From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 23 8:49:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B0C6152CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:49:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA07811; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:48:25 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:48:25 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor To: Brett Glass Cc: Brian Adkins , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990323084530.04006e50@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sigh - I should just stop replying to these... On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > > Brett, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but if you want folks to take > > you seriously, you're going to have to stop making such outlandish > > statements. If you really think developers will "NEVER" target a > > platform because an emulator exists, you're clueless. > No, the developers are clueless. Or maybe they're actually quite smart. > However, THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE TELLING ME. Point blank. I believe the outlandish claim he is discussing is your completely inane belief that "Linux emulation has helped a few people." > >Where are you coming from man? Do you really think the naysayers are > >such because it's *easier* to advocate doing nothing? > > Yes. And they even say so. Look at Jordan's earlier message: > > "I see neither the motivation nor the available talent (at least in > the same package) to make it happen." > > [Translation: I'm killing the motivation by not supporting the idea, > and will tell the best talent we have that this is not a priority.] More correct translation (IMO) - "The people who have the technical ability to do this are _not_ interested and are busy doing other things. Since this is a volunteer project that leaves people wo/ the technical know-how but lots of motivation." At no point does Jordan say "do nothing" - he's saying that there aren't the people to do it. > Open your eyes, dude, and do your homework. Talk to a few software > vendors who are supporting Linux but not FreeBSD. ASK THEM WHY. And I bet virtually every one will say "Linux has the userbase for me to make it worthwhile to make my software for them so I can be a profitable company. FreeBSD doesn't." Brett *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message