From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Nov 1 11:55:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25586 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:55:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25576 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:55:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16960; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 12:55:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd016942; Sun Nov 1 12:55:03 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA24027; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 12:55:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811011955.MAA24027@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) To: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com (Drew Baxter) Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 19:55:02 +0000 (GMT) Cc: grog@lemis.com, tlambert@primenet.com, jcwells@u.washington.edu, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981030212143.00a84420@genesis.ispace.com> from "Drew Baxter" at Oct 30, 98 09:22:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> I would like to see three categories: > >> > >> o Can be made to run with effort > >> o Install tools, but non-native binaries > >> o Native binaries. > > > >You're late on the scene, Terry. This is exactly what I suggested > >several days ago. Not quite exactly what you suggested... I think I've drawn a harder line on the limits of marketing implied by the first item. > >I think that others have made a valid point, though: if we include the > >first category, we don't give much incentive for them to take the > >relatively small step to the second category. I think we should refer > >to the first category in an also-ran web page, but not issue > >certificates unless they go at least to the second category. > > That makes sense. It's not like it's going to kill anyone to throw > together some install tools. After all, it's a good plug for their product > as well to have support for FreeBSD.. The install tools should be thrown together *by* FreeBSD people, and *given* to the vendor, for non-native binaries. Branding at all should *require* a FreeBSD "install presence". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message