From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 19 12:28:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DFF514CF2 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 12:28:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA52177; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 12:28:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Brett Glass Cc: Zippy , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape browser In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:45:11 MST." <4.1.19990319083523.03f7c470@localhost> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 12:28:19 -0800 Message-ID: <52175.921875299@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is why I believe that FreeBSD emulation for Linux is the correct > move. I still think that this exhibits a rather staggering degree of naivete' about how business actually works, however. I wasn't aware that we were putting together a wish list of items that we could have if peace and love reigned over the earth and man loved his fellow man (outside of SF), I thought that we were here to discuss real-life issues. In real-life, just having FreeBSD emulation for Linux by no means gets people to suddenly rush to produce FreeBSD binaries because, as I said before, the incentive just isn't there and it isn't there because of NUMBERS, nothing that you or I can change overnight. It's also a point which is undoubtedly moot since I don't see anyone capable of doing the actual work to implement such a thing emerging from the woodwork anywhere. Various people in the Linux world have looked at this problem at various times, if for no reason other than to shut us up about the emulation issue, and they've all concluded that It Would Be Hard - too hard to contemplate for such a nebulous gain. If you've got one hiding in your back pocket and think you can convince the Linux vendors to adopt it (without such buy-in, the discussion is again moot) then by all means go for it, but I rather suspect that I'll see NFS and PCCARD support fixed before I ever see FreeBSD emulation in Linux (and those first two projects have been going on for *years* without success so far :). - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message