From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 6 21:18:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail1.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9851D37B695 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 21:18:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 7881 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 04:18:12 -0000 Received: from du84.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.84) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 04:18:12 -0000 Message-ID: <396559E2.45585B92@mail.ptd.net> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 00:17:38 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: "Preston S. Wiley" , David Scheidt , Kris Kennaway , Narvi , Dann Lunsford , chat@FreeBSD.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706190244.0483ad70@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706201218.04a99100@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > > 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. Why does the absence of a native version, assuming the Linux version works well under emulation, matter? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message