Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 15:09:48 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape browser Message-ID: <4.1.19990321150512.03f85d40@localhost> In-Reply-To: <52175.921875299@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:45:11 MST." <4.1.19990319083523.03f7c470@localhost>
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At 12:28 PM 3/19/99 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >In real-life, just having FreeBSD emulation for Linux by no >means gets people to suddenly rush to produce FreeBSD binaries >because, as I said before, the incentive just isn't there and it isn't >there because of NUMBERS, nothing that you or I can change overnight. In real life, it would make it possible to amend the now-realistic advice you give to applications vendors: to target Linux and hope they run on FreeBSD under emulation. This is a horrible message! Each vendor who follows this path is likely NEVER to do a native implementation for FreeBSD. It's necessary to be able to say, "target FreeBSD and run on Linux, too," not the reverse. Otherwise, you are practicing "anti-advocacy." What's more, targeting Linux with a FreeBSD emulator is easier than targeting FreeBSD with a Linux emulator. Why? Because more people here are intimately familiar with the FreeBSD ABI than the Linux ABI. The Linux emulator is a harder task AS WELL AS a dangerous one. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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