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Subject: Re: Quake's out, where's that Linux ELF emulation?
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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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
>