From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 22 13:03:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29736 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:03:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from elemental.alchemy.com (elemental.alchemy.com [206.58.126.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29614 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:03:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@alchemy.com) Received: from elemental.alchemy.com (elemental.alchemy.com [206.58.126.23]) by elemental.alchemy.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA08859; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:02:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:02:00 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Willoughby To: Andrew MacIntyre cc: "Douglas C. Garrick" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I want native FreeBSD Apps In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Douglas C. Garrick wrote: > > My real question is however, "What does it take to get application > > software vendors to start writing 'native' FreeBSD apps?". I just It's going to be an uphill battle, I'm afraid. Although we're not a Microsoft-sized software vendor :), we believe we're doing the right thing by our corporate commitment to make all our products available for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris as well as Windows 95/98/NT. We certainly hope more companies will see a benefit to doing this as well. Porting to other platforms *is* a manageable task, if you start out writing your code with that goal in mind. Legacy Windows code may not be so easy, but one can have some hope for the future... Steve Willoughby Software Alchemy, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message