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From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux)
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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:

>StarOffice on CD is probably not easy to install on FreeBSD; it's the
>port that does that.  If a port exists, and the manufacturer distributes
>the package on his CD-ROM, then we should give him extra credit for
>that, even if it's not a native FreeBSD port.

Absolutely. This would fall under "Designed for".

The communcation hangup here is in the definition of "native". Perhaps a
vendor builds a FreeBSD software product. Maybe the vendor knows nothing
of "FreeBSD Ports(tm)". I would still call this a "native port" because it
was explicitly made to run on FreeBSD without emulation. The vendor gets
the extra recognition.

Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/


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