From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Nov 1 21:42:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA10816 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 21:42:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA10809 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 21:42:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01162; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 22:40:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <363D45D1.2887F23@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 22:40:33 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert CC: Drew Baxter , grog@lemis.com, jcwells@u.washington.edu, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) References: <199811011955.MAA24027@usr05.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > > That makes sense. It's not like it's going to kill anyone to throw > > together some install tools. After all, it's a good plug for their product > > as well to have support for FreeBSD.. > > The install tools should be thrown together *by* FreeBSD people, > and *given* to the vendor, for non-native binaries. > > Branding at all should *require* a FreeBSD "install presence". I think the discussion has evolved beyond this point. The general consensus now seems to be will have a web page of "works in progress" that includes applications currently known to work on FreeBSD, but which do not yet qualify for the logo status because they don't yet have a relatively goof-proof installer. We've also come to a rough consensus that the installer required for the "Works with" (or whatever we call it) logo may be supplied by the vendor OR by FreeBSD volunteers; the existence of the installer is far more important than who created. We also feel that vendors should be encouraged to develop FreeBSD installers. ;^) I think we're ready to move forward with this; if anyone has any strong disagreements please voice them. This proposal, once fully developed, should be run by the core team for their comment as well. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message