From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 3 05:12:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA03737 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 05:12:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from opi.flirtbox.ch ([62.48.0.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA03710 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 05:12:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@pipeline.ch) Received: (qmail 3148 invoked from network); 3 Oct 1998 12:09:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) (195.134.140.2) by opi.flirtbox.ch with SMTP; 3 Oct 1998 12:09:11 -0000 Message-ID: <36161482.7373B67E@pipeline.ch> Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 14:11:46 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann Organization: Internet Business Solutions Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass CC: Wes Peters , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , James Love , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement References: <23307.907176696@time.cdrom.com> <4.1.19981002190913.040f3b60@mail.lariat.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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