From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 21 11:47:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA25574 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 May 1995 11:47:37 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA25568 for ; Sun, 21 May 1995 11:47:36 -0700 Received: from baycon.org (wraith.cdrom.com [192.216.222.6]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id LAA06473 for ; Sun, 21 May 1995 11:40:30 -0700 Received: from hasty.vip.best.com by baycon.org (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04716; Sun, 21 May 95 11:53:40 PDT Message-Id: <9505211853.AA04716@ baycon.org > X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6delta 4/7/95 To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: Mma for Linux, when? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 May 1995 03:48:01 PDT." <17788.801053281@freefall.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 11:36:51 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > To advance a slippery slope argument, settling for Linux application > > is tantamount to settling for the Linux operating system. Why run > > FreeBSD at all if all the applications are going to be Linux > > applications? Why try to encourage more users to try FreeBSD when > > Linux is so popular and has so much commercial application support? > > We might as well spend our time and energy into making Linux a > > better platform and abandon FreeBSD. > The Silence of an OS :) First, they are not that many Linux native apps without source. (Amancio once again turning green) if the user base starts at least asking software manufacturers for a native port of their application(s) we will not have the existing situation. If a company makes a port of their application to linux it can't be that hard to port the application to FreeBSD. FreeBSD is a good product. We just have to sell it! Amancio