From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Oct 2 14: 0: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 588B737B502; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA20156; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 13:56:59 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAqeaqAL; Mon Oct 2 13:55:30 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA10367; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 13:58:24 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200010022058.NAA10367@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: BSD Magazine? To: mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org (Michael Lucas) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:58:24 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jswarner@uswest.net (Joe Warner), freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20001001184041.A58830@blackhelicopters.org> from "Michael Lucas" at Oct 01, 2000 06:40:41 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] 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 > > Why would advertising be such a big problem, since most applications > > that are made for Linux, will run on *BSD? What products are > > made for Linux exclusively and won't run on *BSD? > > While advertisers do make products that *run* on BSD, they don't > advertise their products as being usable on BSD. All the difference. This is wrong. Many companies support BSDI or FreeBSD versions, and have since the glibc2 debacle made it nearly impossible to maintain only a single Linux distribution. A good example is Zend, which builds a PHP optimizer, and distributes 1 FreeBSD version and 3 Linux versions of the same program because of binary incompatability between Linux distributions. 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