Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 13:09:26 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970420125948.1362G-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199704200441.OAA02744@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Michael Smith wrote:
> > I think the question was DO we need a BSD specific port and the answer
> > (SORRY it was just my opinion and I can't speak for the whole world
> > Einstein, was Yeah, today we do...)
>
> ... and yet when the issue was raised perhaps a week or so ago, and
> people that have actually worked with ISV's and with OS vendors
> dealing with ISV's were sharing their experiences, you were where?
>
> After listening to their input, which was calm, reasoned and based in
> some cases on direct experience with the ISV's in question, you still
> claim there's a need for a BSD-specific port of an application which
> is available for Linux?
>
> I'm sorry; I can't see how you can take such a line, except in the
> context of rampant fantasy.
Geez, I don't know...tell me which argument would be easier to sell:
"Hi, you should run FreeBSD because of all the good commercial Linux
products that will run underneath it"
-or-
"Hi, you should run Linux, since alot of the good commercial products
run underneath it"
I don't want to run Linux, but its like IBM going out with this *great*
operating system (vs Windows) and trying to explain how ISVs won't port to
them because they have no market, *but*, hey, we can emulate Windows enough
to run all the latest MicroSloth products. Of course, what happens when
Windows changes their API just so slightly that the OS/2/Windows emulator
won't handle the newest code?
*shrug*
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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