From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jul 8 23:33:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8180737BFD8; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 23:33:32 -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 AAA09071; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:33:22 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000709002932.04980100@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 00:33:21 -0600 To: "Thomas M. Sommers" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <396818F2.51CF061C@mail.ptd.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706190244.0483ad70@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706201218.04a99100@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706222258.046d9c00@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000708105237.0448ca90@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000708162010.050e5da0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:17 AM 7/9/2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: >So the absence of Linux binary support will not necessarily mean more >native ports, and will mean that programs that don't have native ports >will not run. Which means fewer applications for FreeBSD. Which means >fewer users for FreeBSD. Which means fewer native ports for FreeBSD. >... Again, you appear to be intentionally misconstruing or ignoring what I've said in earlier messages. I'm afraid that I can't take the time to educate you about strategies and tactics if you simply can't (or won't) get it. >But these market forces will probably still not be strong enough to >produce native ports. Yet again you ignore what I've written. If developers see a common API and ABI which lets them develop for all of the many Linux distros AND FreeBSD, they will jump at the chance to use it. The rest of your message makes the same mistakes. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message