Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:03:35 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Quake's out, where's that Linux ELF emulation? Message-ID: <199602280803.AAA05147@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:34:02 PST." <199602280734.XAA00751@rah.star-gate.com>
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>>>> "Jordan K. Hubbard" said: > > > Gosh, > > > > > > Can we send out 2000 mail messages to iD?? > > > > Ack, no, please don't! Look, seriously, I've talked to the > > _developers_ of this friggin' software and they've made it more than > > abundantly plain to me, on multiple occasions, that they are NEVER, > > EVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES going to do a port to FreeBSD and the > > matter is not even open to discussion. The only reason we see a "free > > UNIX" port of IDs stuff at all is because they happen to be unabashed > > Linux fanatics there, and they have zero, zip nada interest in a > > FreeBSD port. > > > > If you want Dave Taylor to publically state same in this mailing list > >Fine , arrange it . I like to go "down" fighting not standing down. >If they don't make port for FreeBSD can you remove the stuff from >the ftp.cdrom.com site. This is my thinking they are so in love with >linux yet they have not been able to provide an adequate linux ftp >site. It seems to me that they have dollars and can buy the expertise >to provide adequate ftp services be that linux or some other platform. No, that would be *extremely* childish and bad business to boot. Besides, we gain a tremendous amount by dishing out our FreeBSD propaganda when they (the dos/linux people) access the archive. wcarchive didn't grow to be the biggest and busiest FTP archive in the world by strong-arming people into a One True Way of thinking. You can put me on record as saying that I think it's very bad policy to sink to the levels of the Linux fanatics. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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