From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 25 06:02:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA22164 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 06:02:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from terror.hungry.com (toshok@terror.hungry.com [199.181.107.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA22158 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 06:02:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toshok@Hungry.COM) Received: (from toshok@localhost) by terror.hungry.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) id GAA27543; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 06:02:15 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing References: <199804242304.JAA07879@cimlogic.com.au> <199804242326.QAA04396@rah.star-gate.com> From: Christoph Toshok Date: 25 Apr 1998 06:02:15 -0700 In-Reply-To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com's message of 24 Apr 1998 16:29:20 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) writes: > > Look , we *need* both short temper posters and a very calm an > reasonable posters. About six months ago, if memory does not > fail me a netscape developer attended the SF Users Meeting and > not to my surprised was full ill of ill conceived ideas about freebsd > and the reason being is that the "wild eyed crazy linux hordes" > saw an opportunity and they took it. The netscape developer > listed his main concerns and one by one we addressed them. > All except the thorny issue of proper elf support .Interestingly the > tempers ran very high when it came to freebsd elf supporting issues. > I left and I only attended the SFUG meeting which Julian's company sponsor . > The netscape developer walked away infuriated an shortly there after > the netscape browser for freebsd came into existence. just out of curiosity, who was this "netscape developer"? I never knew of anyone else at netscape that was following freebsd that closely until after I did the port. christoph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message