From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 15 12:24:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2CE37B424 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 12:24:45 -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 NAA09915; Tue, 15 May 2001 13:24:22 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010515131451.00b13950@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:20:12 -0600 To: Kris Kennaway From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Opera ports to QNX but not BSD Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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