From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 6 18:40: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31DD637BC43 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:39:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 4433 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 01:39:52 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 01:39:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 12735 invoked by uid 211); 7 Jul 2000 01:39:51 -0000 Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 07:09:51 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brett Glass Cc: Marco Molteni , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A fortune(6) candidate (was: No port of Opera?) Message-ID: <20000707070950.A12730@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <53082.962927902@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706103005.00e05660@localhost> <53082.962927902@localhost> <20000706174440.A8752@sofia.csl.sri.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706190153.04838520@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706190153.04838520@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 07:30:21PM -0600 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 alpha Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass said on Jul 6, 2000 at 19:30:21: > Seriously, though, it appears that certain folks are in denial about > the negative results of emulating another platform, even though they > are being demonstrated again and again. It stuns me, the logic is so obvious and inevitable -- the GPL is evil, therefore linux is evil, therefore it's like Microsoft, therefore it will take the first opportunity to "pull the rug out from under the emulator by adding or changing APIs" and "hose" FreeBSD -- how come nobody was able to see this awful truth before Brett came along and enlightened us? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message