Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:23:26 -1000 (HST) From: "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quake's out, where's that Linux ELF emulation? Message-ID: <199602280923.XAA01126@caliban.dihelix.com> In-Reply-To: <1391.825491881@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 27, 96 11:18:01 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Just being curious, but why was the SGI port of doom done? No complaint on that- it gives me something to do with ours :) ID is one thing but if there is a company to go after right now, it looks like it should be Caldera. >From the looks of things they may single-handedly make Linux the MS-DOS of the '90s (*sigh*) >> 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 >before you'll believe it, I'm also fairly sure it could be arranged. >He's certainly not been shy about making all of the above clear to me, >and pestering them with a letter-bombing campaign would have exactly >the opposite effect of what I suspect you'd like to achieve. > > Jordan >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199602280923.XAA01126>