From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 9 11:37:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3915B37B688; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 11:37:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA12223; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 12:37:05 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000709123023.04adf950@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 12:36:59 -0600 To: Greg Lehey , David Schwartz From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000709180613.I14455@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000709004740.049f9740@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:36 AM 7/9/2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >*sigh* I had intended to keep out of this, but I must say I like your >analysis. I'd like to add that we're not really talking about Linux >vs. BSD here, we're talking about ABIs. We're not just talking about ABIs, Greg, it's APIs too. And support. And compatibility. We need native code that is supported on our platform. We do not want to be stuck running code targeted at and tailored to ANOTHER plaform, with libraries which are part of another platform, under an emulation which could be broken in the future despite our best efforts, without vendor support. Nor should we support the pernicious political agenda which comes bundled with that other platform. One of the most imporant resons to support the BSDs is that they are not part of the FSF Empire. If BSD is only valuable with Linux emulation, it effectively becomes part of Stallman's agenda and empire. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message