Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 18:34:22 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Selfstyled arrogance? Message-ID: <19990729183422.A78296@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <1286.933228878@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 11:14:38PM -0700 References: <77276D633FA.AAA9A@po03.wxs.nl> <1286.933228878@zippy.cdrom.com>
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* Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) [990729 10:20]: > > read this form of selfstyled arrogance: > > It's not arrogance. As far as they're concerned (and remember that > this is SCO talking), the Linux ABI is "good enough" as a standard ABI > for the x86 and they're probably right. If you were so motivated to > have a different common format, why didn't you join the x86open > consortium and contribute something to the effort? :) Because I didn't know about it at that time So I am instead focusing my time now on other projects =) But the page displays all those participants (including Net and Free) and then happily declares that they _all_ chose the Linux ELF format. [note: that's how I read it] I for one, cannot remember seeing a post on any FreeBSD list about this. Then again, I am only in this ballgame for about a year now, so what do I know? [Note: that's the Unix ballgame, and in particular FreeBSD] -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Cum angelis et pueris, fideles inveniamur. Quis est iste Rex gloriae...? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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