From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 6 16:30:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5226D37B60E; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:30:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA14094; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:31:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAQfaWEB; Thu Jul 6 16:30:56 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA07626; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:30:32 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200007062330.QAA07626@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows))) To: kris@FreeBSD.ORG (Kris Kennaway) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:30:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi), dann@greycat.com (Dann Lunsford), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Kris Kennaway" at Jul 06, 2000 02:04:48 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > In short, we're likely to be stuck running Opera, and other similar > > products, under a (GPLed!) emulator *forever*, with little or no hope of a > > Where *do* you get some of your ideas, Brett? Whatever makes you think > that the Linux ABI code in FreeBSD is under the GPL? I think he is referring to the Linux threads kernel module, which is required to run many modern Linux programs written by people who don't understand finite state automata. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message