From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 25 11:30:56 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA05730 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 11:30:56 -0700 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA05723 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 11:30:54 -0700 Received: from localhost.v-site.net (localhost.v-site.net [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA21406; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 11:28:27 -0700 Message-Id: <199507251828.LAA21406@rah.star-gate.com> X-Authentication-Warning: rah.star-gate.com: Host localhost.v-site.net didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly), babkin@hq.icb.chel.su, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DOOM for FreeBSD ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jul 1995 11:06:42 PDT." <13181.806695602@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 11:28:26 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>> "Jordan K. Hubbard" said: > > I believe the last time someone asked, the response from Id Software > > was ``NO, NEVER.'' In all-caps, even. > > I think they're rather sick of being asked.. :-) > > My own conversations with them have been rather more polite, but I do > understand that the circumstances that led to other ports being done > _at all_ were very unique ones and that they have no interest in doing > any additional "non strategic" ports. Compared to their DOS/Jaguar/3DO > base, FreeBSD and Linux put together don't even register as a blip. > Also one of the ID developers tragically and I am most sorry to say this for he probably does not know any better fell into the trap of running linux. If I am not mistaken ID's ftp site is also running linux. Amancio