From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 8 12:01:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02421 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 12:01:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (root@fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02407 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 12:00:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu) Received: from win95.local.sunyit.edu (A-T34.rh.sunyit.edu [150.156.210.241]) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA25061; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 16:02:28 GMT Message-ID: <013b01bd4acc$69d39660$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu> From: "Alfred Perlstein" To: "Terry Lambert" , "David Kelly" Cc: Subject: Re: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks? Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 14:57:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG why would we do that? instead we should focus on the wine project, integrating win32 to freebsd would just bloat it with useless calls that would never be used in normal u*ix apps. having wine as a seperate app would be the best choice, wine support should be important to freebsd. -Alfred -----Original Message----- From: Terry Lambert To: David Kelly Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Friday, March 06, 1998 3:49 PM Subject: Re: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks? >> > Wandering , if we can get a grant from the goverment to support the SMP >> > project or to support FreeBSD ? >> >> I think you'd stand a better chance with the US Gov if you sold your >> pitch as a free and secure replacement for Windows. NT "security" was >> pitched hard and only now is the true situation being realized. >> >> Problem is to replace Windows you would also have to replace Word and >> Excel. These days government computers are essentially Microsoft Office >> platforms, and Microsoft Office is essentially the OS. > >Get a grant for Win32 on FreeBSD first. 8-). > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message