From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 26 00:42:47 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id AAA09787 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 00:42:47 -0700 Received: from hq.icb.chel.su (icb-rich-gw.icb.chel.su [193.125.10.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA09770 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 00:41:53 -0700 Received: from localhost (babkin@localhost) by hq.icb.chel.su (8.6.5/8.6.5) id NAA06514; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 13:39:17 +0600 From: "Serge A. Babkin" Message-Id: <199507260739.NAA06514@hq.icb.chel.su> Subject: Re: DOOM for FreeBSD ? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 13:39:17 +0600 (GMT+0600) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <13181.806695602@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 25, 95 11:06:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 909 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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. The README file from QNX says that this port was done by QNX using the sources they got from ID. They say that the port was done nearly in 1 day because it was written very portable. I think QNX has signed some NDA with ID about these sources :-( Serge Babkin ! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) ! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank" ! Chelyabinsk, Russia