Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:44:22 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: scrappy@hub.org Cc: mallison@konnections.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought Message-ID: <199704191844.OAA20869@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970419152436.4592L-100000@thelab.hub.org> (message from The Hermit Hacker on Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:28:10 -0300 (ADT))
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> Second, as Jordan had pointed out at one point, the Linux port is >runnable under FreeBSD emulation right now, which is a good start. IMHO, >if we could somehow show StarDivision (and, subsequently, other commercial >developers) the value of a FreeBSD port through increased usage *under* >FreeBSD, then we'd start to see as many commercial ports for FreeBSD as >there are for, let's say...Linux? Linux has a reasonably known track >record...we don't have much of one, at least as far as commercial products >are concerned... Why is a BSD-specific port so important? -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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