Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 23:26:43 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation Message-ID: <Mutt.19970121232643.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701212049.MAA08515@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Jan 21, 1997 12:49:42 -0800 References: <199701201752.KAA15603@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199701212049.MAA08515@austin.polstra.com>
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As John Polstra wrote:
> To me, the main obstacles in the way of switching to ELF are:
...
> * There is gut-level opposition to it because it reeks of SVR4 and
> Linux.
You forgot the most important problem, John:
* There's no standardized way to differentiate the operating system
type.
I think this one always served as the show-stopper excuse by now...
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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