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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>
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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


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