From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Mar 22 17:11:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Pegasus.cc.ucf.edu [132.170.240.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3CD152BB for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:11:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu) Received: from pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (pegasus.cc.ucf.edu [132.170.240.30]) Ident [ewayte] by pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id D0D143432; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:08:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:08:02 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Wayte Reply-To: Eric Wayte To: Brett Glass Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Jasper O'Malley , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape browser In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990322160933.00aaf6c0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This thread has outlived its usefulness! It's obvious it's time for Brettnux - the Linux distro with the FreeBSD emulator. Now go off and write the thing and leave the rest of us in peace! On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:15:28 -0700 > From: Brett Glass > To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" > Cc: Jasper O'Malley , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Netscape browser > > At 03:07 PM 3/22/99 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > >> one -- a strategy that IBM showed to be almost suicidal. However, > > > >Actually, I think IBM showed it to be suicidal by not doing a very > >good job of it in OS/2. Otherwise, it was a fine idea. > > Actually, it was a really GOOD implementation. For awhile, it could > run virtually any Windows application. > > The reason why it ultimately stopped working so well was that Microsoft > moved the API out from under them. > > And the damage it did, at first, was irreparable. Developers stopped > porting to OS/2. By the time the emulation STOPPED working, no one > would go back to writing native code for OS/2 because the OS was failing. > > >I still seriously doubt that anyone in FreeBSD land will do any such > >thing - I see neither the motivation nor the available talent (at > >least in the same package) to make it happen > > Well, quite frankly, Jordan, your lack of support for it could well > poison the effort. > > >and, again, have to > >wonder at the usefulness of this entire thread. > > The usefulness of the entire thread, Jordan, is that I'm trying to present > a coherent vision and strategy for the promotion of FreeBSD. No platform > gets support by divine right; it has to earn it by making the right moves. > FreeBSD is falling into old traps and not thinking outside the box, and it's > going to lose out as a result. > > --Brett > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message