Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:57:00 +0100 (BST) From: Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux compat [was Re: Linux not FreeBSD?] Message-ID: <199906161457.PAA27212@ideaglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpvhcocpub.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Jun 16, 99 02:06:04 pm
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> > "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> writes: > > People who desire more native apps for FreeBSD need to talk to the > > vendors in question, not wait for some mysterious 3rd party to do the > > convincing. Somebody mentioned sybase, for example, and I've gotten > > some interest from the Sybase folks in the past when we've discussed > > the matter, but it always comes down to one thing: Customers. They > > want to talk to potential customers who will be voting with their > > wallets for the product, not some OS vendor who's simply trying to > > argue that it would be A Good Thing for them to do it. > > Is this the same Sybase that is *giving away* the Linux version of > their RDBMS? Sheesh. Yep. and that's why it is my personal pet peeve. (with apologies for airing it in public :-) Kiril > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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