From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Aug 2 23:33:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F159114C1E for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 23:33:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11BY7h-0001Qj-00; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:32:29 -0600 Message-ID: <37A68D01.507868CF@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 00:32:33 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Hoskins Cc: Stephen McKay , Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Selfstyled arrogance? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Hoskins wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Stephen McKay wrote: > > > It's very much a dispassionate "here are the facts of this situation" > > message. The lesson in it for us is that we should concentrate even more > > on Linux Binary Compatibility. Even the stupid bits. > > Call me stupid, OK, you're stupid. Hey, wait, you asked for it! ;^) > but I don't like seeing 'concentrate on' and 'stupid bits' > in the same paragraph when referring to the FreeBSD Project... Then you're obviously not one of those clamoring for us to "fix" the floppy tape driver. As has been ground in my face by Terry Lambert more often than I care to remember, implementing Linux binary compatibility can be a treacherous slope, due to some of the questionable architecture decisions on their part. Stupid things like their willingness to put a /proc interface on the entire system lead misguided developers like StarCode to actually USE these interfaces, resulting in software that can't be run on anything but a Linux system, or a system that emulates the god-awful Linus /proc mess. One word leaps immediately to mind: FUGLY. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message