From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 11 21:25:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA06814 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 21:25:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from argus.nuke.net (pm3-p30.tfs.net [206.154.183.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA06799 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 21:25:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by argus.nuke.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA12357; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 23:24:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199706120424.XAA12357@argus.nuke.net> Subject: Re: Acrobat... To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro F. Giffuni) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 23:24:39 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: jbryant@tfs.net In-Reply-To: <339F743F.6B23@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro F. Giffuni" at Jun 11, 97 08:59:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply: > (I CC´d this to chat, if someone replies please take it out of hackers) oops.. > Hmm.. > This was sort of discussed in the ports list long ago. The general > principle that the majority (not exactly me, I, and myself) followed was > that it was not a good idea to start bothering commercial software > producers towards porting their stuff to FreeBSD, that we could survive > better if Linux was supported, and as a result we would also win that > market. > In fact I emailed them thanking for the Linux port, and reported that it > ran under FreeBSD. They were very appreciative of my message. > > Pedro. please see my last posting under a similar subject line... jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@tfs.net - KC5VDJ 2M, 70cm, KPC-3+ - kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam