From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jul 1 12:45:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from vortex.greycat.com (vortex.greycat.com [207.173.133.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20C0E37B89F for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 12:45:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dann@greycat.com) Received: (qmail 6866 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2000 19:45:31 -0000 Received: from bigphred.greycat.com (HELO greycat.com) (207.173.133.2) by vortex.greycat.com with SMTP; 1 Jul 2000 19:45:31 -0000 Received: (from dann@localhost) by greycat.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA36569 for chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 12:45:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dann) Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 12:45:30 -0700 From: Dann Lunsford To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows)) Message-ID: <20000701124530.A36442@greycat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've been thinking about the Linuxulator a bit lately (trying to get a DVD player from Linux on my FreeBSD laptop), and the analogy in $SUBJECT hit me. It has always seemed to me that one of the worst things that IBM did was make the Windoze subsystem of OS/2 too good; there was no need for anyone to produce OS/2 stuff, since OS/2 people could simply use the Windoze version of Product X (I can recall being told *exactly* this from >10 vendors). This despite the fact that native versions would perform better, be able to have more features, etc. Now I'm worried. We all know what happened to OS/2; is there a danger of the same thing happening to FreeBSD? I think there is. I recently saw that Applix was considering dropping FreeBSD as a platform, in favor of Linux only; I wrote them a polite protest, as I'm sure a lot of you did, and was pleased to see later that Applixware-FreeBSD would continue. However, that announcement was lukewarm, and left, in my mind, at least, a distinct impression that they would prefer to just concentrate on Linux. I saw precisely the same attitudes from vendors wrt OS/2 vs Windoze. Now, I freely admit to being a bit paranoid; but, as the saying goes, paranoids can have real enemies, too. Thoughts? -- Dann Lunsford The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil Idann@greycat.com is that men of good will do nothing. -- Cicero To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message