From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 25 10:24:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19048 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA19036 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:24:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09778; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:24:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199804251724.KAA09778@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Christoph Toshok cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing In-reply-to: Your message of "25 Apr 1998 06:02:15 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:24:40 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty 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 Hi Christoph, First a million tnks for the netscape port!! Sorry , I can't remember the name of the developer who I met at SFUG :( Cheers, Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message