From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 1 13:43:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA28435 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:43:22 -0700 Received: from localhost.lightside.com (user30.lightside.com [198.81.209.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA28428 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:43:18 -0700 Received: (from jehamby@localhost) by localhost.lightside.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA00342; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:44:21 -0700 Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:43:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby X-Sender: jehamby@localhost To: jkh@freebsd.org cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Calling all commercial software demo folks! Deadlines approach. In-Reply-To: <13353.812442394@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > If you would like to see a commercial demo of some sort make it onto > the CD, then the time to submit it is ASAP! > > "Commercial" in this instance is defined any as software for sale, > shareware, or a limited functionality/time-bombed demo. > > [...] > Jordan Maybe, FreeBSD could include an encrypted version of SWiM or some other commercial version of OSF/Motif 2.0 so that people who want to buy Motif would only have to send $99 or $149 or whatever to the vendor and get the key to decrypt it straight from the FreeBSD CD. I already know of at least one Linux vendor which has this sort of thing on their CD-ROM. Can anyone pursue this avenue further? Also, I already suggested to Jordan that there is an excellent Macintosh emulator from a company called ARDI (http://www.ardi.com/) which is currently for DOS/NextStep/Linux and seems to work okay under FreeBSD's Linux emulator. I forwarded the FreeBSD announcement on to ARDI, and I hope they would be willing to put the L*nux version on the FreeBSD CD and if they get a good response, maybe they will make a FreeBSD-native version? One can only hope... :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------