Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 14:11:46 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, James Love <love@cptech.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Message-ID: <36161482.7373B67E@pipeline.ch> References: <23307.907176696@time.cdrom.com> <4.1.19981002190913.040f3b60@mail.lariat.org>
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Brett Glass wrote: > > At 12:53 PM 9/30/98 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > >Linux compatibility is one of the > >most important features of FreeBSD. As the market for commercial Linux > >applications grows, so does the market for commercial FreeBSD applications. > > History has proven exactly the opposite. The introduction of Windows > application support in OS/2 actually accelerated its demise. If FreeBSD > starts billing itself as "a better Linux than Linux" it will fall into > precisely the same trap and will never catch up. Yea, and it seems that Jordans "a better Linux than Linux" doesn't work either. Take a look on the license restrictions of the recently released database packages... We are forbidden to run it on FreeBSD... (but I don't think this restriction is lawful, IMHO we can ignore it) -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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