From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 14 00:37:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA14989 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:37:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA14983 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:37:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA02565; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 17:34:34 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606140804.RAA02565@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: T-shirts for donations ;)...Maybe????? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 17:34:33 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, terry@lambert.org, green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2488.834729028@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 13, 96 10:10:28 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > >>It would quite possibly be a Big Plus to have FlexLM native on FreeBSD. It'd >>certainly clear a few headaches around here. > > Yuck. I say again, Yuck. That's like deliberately wishing for herpes. :-) > [yeah yeah, I know, when you need it you need it] So is running a commercial Linux binary on FreeBSD (but boy does it kill the same app on Linux under -current; muchos gracias to John and the gang!) Nevertheless, it would make life for, say, WordPerfect users easier; AFAIR the license manager is _the_ hairball when it comes to running WP. I'm not looking forward to when RSI go to FlexLM-for-Linux at the end of the year - I can see some _very_ heated email between us and their support droids until we get it sorted. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[