From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 28 00:04:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA20800 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:04:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA20787 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:03:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id AAA05147; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:03:35 -0800 Message-Id: <199602280803.AAA05147@Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Stephen Hocking , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Quake's out, where's that Linux ELF emulation? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:34:02 PST." <199602280734.XAA00751@rah.star-gate.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:03:35 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>> "Jordan K. Hubbard" said: > > > Gosh, > > > > > > Can we send out 2000 mail messages to iD?? > > > > Ack, no, please don't! Look, seriously, I've talked to the > > _developers_ of this friggin' software and they've made it more than > > abundantly plain to me, on multiple occasions, that they are NEVER, > > EVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES going to do a port to FreeBSD and the > > matter is not even open to discussion. The only reason we see a "free > > UNIX" port of IDs stuff at all is because they happen to be unabashed > > Linux fanatics there, and they have zero, zip nada interest in a > > FreeBSD port. > > > > If you want Dave Taylor to publically state same in this mailing list > >Fine , arrange it . I like to go "down" fighting not standing down. >If they don't make port for FreeBSD can you remove the stuff from >the ftp.cdrom.com site. This is my thinking they are so in love with >linux yet they have not been able to provide an adequate linux ftp >site. It seems to me that they have dollars and can buy the expertise >to provide adequate ftp services be that linux or some other platform. No, that would be *extremely* childish and bad business to boot. Besides, we gain a tremendous amount by dishing out our FreeBSD propaganda when they (the dos/linux people) access the archive. wcarchive didn't grow to be the biggest and busiest FTP archive in the world by strong-arming people into a One True Way of thinking. You can put me on record as saying that I think it's very bad policy to sink to the levels of the Linux fanatics. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project