Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:20:12 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opera ports to QNX but not BSD Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010515131451.00b13950@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010515121629.A10144@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010515112511.045e75b0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010515112511.045e75b0@localhost>
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At 01:16 PM 5/15/2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: >Yeah, so? Do you think Opera did this for free? How much are you >paying them to do the port to FreeBSD? There are so many more users of the BSDs than IBM is ever likely to get for its "Internet appliance." So, even if IBM is helping to finance the port, in the long run a native port to the BSDs has greater revenue potential for Opera. Opera isn't thinking. Furthermore, Wind River should be greatly concerned about this development, because it puts their embedded BSD offerings at a disadvantage relative to QNX. They should be howling about this and perhaps financing a port. Of course, we might have seen a BSD port much sooner had the BSDs not made the incredibly unwise mis-step of incorporating support for Linux binaries. By doing this rather than making a BSD API emulator for Linux, they've guaranteed that Linux development will come first and BSD development last. This is just one more case where it's happened. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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