From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 6 19:14:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E1137C01E; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 19:14:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA01743; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 20:13:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706201218.04a99100@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 20:13:44 -0600 To: "Preston S. Wiley" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) Cc: David Scheidt , Kris Kennaway , Narvi , Dann Lunsford , chat@FreeBSD.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706190244.0483ad70@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:02 PM 7/6/2000, Preston S. Wiley wrote: >Without Linux compatibility, BSD wouldn't have enough of a desktop user >base for a company to even consider a native BSD port. The Linux >compatibility was created to draw in users. (i.e. BSD can do everything >Linux can, including run its binaries, plus this and this and this) >The more users BSD has, the more likely there will be a native BSD port. The flaw in this argument is that the USERS are not the ones who have to make the decision whether to port. It's the DEVELOPERS. And if the developers see the Linux API as universal and therefore write to it, it MAKES NO DIFFERENCE how many users FreeBSD has. The ports will not happen. Period. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message