From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 21 15:03:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA20178 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:03:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA20165 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:03:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA19852 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:03:03 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id XAA23577; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 23:26:43 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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 References: <199701201752.KAA15603@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199701212049.MAA08515@austin.polstra.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701212049.MAA08515@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Jan 21, 1997 12:49:42 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)