From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Nov 1 21:58:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12846 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 21:58:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA12838 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 21:58:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from Celeris (56k-port4017.ime.net [209.90.195.27]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id AAA12176; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 00:58:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19981102004810.009c5ee0@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 00:49:29 -0500 To: Wes Peters , Terry Lambert From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) Cc: grog@lemis.com, jcwells@u.washington.edu, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <363D45D1.2887F23@softweyr.com> References: <199811011955.MAA24027@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:40 PM 11/1/98 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: >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 Well I've got a question namely.. I think after all of the revision (2 or 3 logo classes, etc), that there should be a recap of what actually has been established. But from what I've seen and recollected.. I haven't had any reason to disagree anyway. It's just a lot of mail that's streamed through here regarding the topic lately. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message