Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 22:22:50 -0700 From: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu, scrappy@hub.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought Message-ID: <335AF9A9.74E327A5@konnections.com> References: <199704200230.MAA02391@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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I realise that I'm just STUPID, right Mike, so tell me, Why do I have a BRAND NEW, LATEST RELEASE, $400 (That's US Too) Linux Commercial package on my desk which WARNS in big letters that it may not run on all versions of LINUX because of library incompatibilities? You tell me, smart guy, if there isn't a problem out there REAL or PERCEIVED, that if I bother to port my product to Linux or BSD that I might have a problem with inconsistent libraries and kernels. I might also add, although you're far to smart to have missed it, that Marc was speaking of Star Office as and example only, and said that explicitly. And that my comment, which you must have slept through while discovering cold fusion, was that we needed a way to ensure that Commercial vendors could know that the hooks they relied on were there in all releases or that they were informed of major changes early enough to encorporate them into their production cycle. I'm sorry if you solve all that over tea, the rest of us just weren't informed, unfortunately neither were some vendors.... Humbly yours, -Mike Michael Smith wrote: > > The Linux ABI emulation has progressed, and the linux_lib port has > eveolved specifically to _ensure_ that valuable commercial > applications will work. If you think that we are blind to the need > for this, then you are more incredibly stupid than I had ever > imagined. > > Please, cut it with the fantasizing in public. >
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