Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 10:01:03 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "David Langford" <root@dihelix.com>, "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quake's out, where's that Linux ELF emulation? Message-ID: <2634.825530463@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:23:26 -1000." <199602280923.XAA01126@caliban.dihelix.com>
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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 :) I believe that SGI actually paid for it, or somehow sweetened the pot significantly to make it happen. Same with the Sun port. > ID is one thing but if there is a company to go after right now, it > looks like it should be Caldera. Actually, NOT Caldera. All the companies that Caldera has licensed the technology from, that's who to go for! :-) I talked with the Caldera folks for awhile at USENIX and their attitude was sort of: "well, erm, you see we didn't actually write too much of this desktop stuff ourselves - it's all licensed from people like Visix, and we've only got permission to sell Linux versions." So even though they'd like to expand their base, they really can't. Most of Caldera is just rebadged 3rd party software with very definite (and restrictive) licensing terms. They've recommended that I talk to the 3rd parties directly, and I've actually got a call into Visix as of yesterday and am waiting for a call back. I'll try again in the afternoon if I don't hear anything. Jordan
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