Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:25:19 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape browser Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9903221014320.32402-100000@mercury.webnology.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990321150512.03f85d40@localhost>
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On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > 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. At this point, the choice isn't between creating native binaries for FreeBSD and Linux; it's between creating a native binary for Linux, or not. > This is a horrible message! Each vendor who follows this path is likely > NEVER to do a native implementation for FreeBSD. I disagree. If you can substantially build the FreeBSD userbase for the product under emulation, and then get that userbase clamoring for a native app, you'll have a chance of getting it. I'm not saying that we shouldn't ask for native apps all the while, and actively campaign for them, as well, but killing the Linux emulation project because it would seem to make Linux attractive is ludicrous. Does the AS/400's emulation of the System/36 make System/36 apps more attractive? What the Linux emulator does is make the jump from Linux to FreeBSD easier for dyed-in-the-wool Linux acolytes. It allows FreeBSD to run far more commercial application than are *currently* available in native form. Abandoning Linux emulation would a real sacrifice of functionality, and it would be suicide. Cheers, Mick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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