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Date:      Sun, 27 May 2001 10:41:44 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>
To:        a brody <abrody@smart.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I would like to add
Message-ID:  <3B111228.F53F9E24@iowna.com>
References:  <a05100e03b736ae32c826@[192.168.123.179]>

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Who are you and how much is Apple paying you?
While this is an interesting discussion, if you want quick changes to
the web site, you might do better to take your crusade directly to
someone like Nik Clayton (nik@freebsd.org) who is in charge of FreeBSD
documentation.

-Bill

a brody wrote:
> 
> Dear FreeBSD,
> I took a FreeBSD version of Linklint and did a Make on the file on
> the command-line interface of Mac OS X
> (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal in Mac OS X opens the CLI).  It
> compiled without a problem.  And it works.   It goes to show that you
> can take FreeBSD applications and put them on Mac OS X.    If that's
> the case, who cares what the kernal is, FreeBSD is still there.
> Granted the compiled application only works in the Command-line
> interface.  But there are also free ports of XWindows such as XFree86
> (http://xfree86.org/), and two XWindows applications are already
> slated for Mac OS X, namely GIMP (http://www.macgimp.org/) and and
> Grass (http://SierraMaps.com/grass/).
> 
> Macs have come a long way since 1997.   Anyone who hasn't been using
> Macs since 1997, really shouldn't let their anti-mac bias get to them
> (if they have any such bias).   Macs practically started the support
> for USB, IEEE 1394, 802.11b,(wireless), and they currently support
> SVGA, have ATA/IDE drives, and PCI ports.   There is practically
> nothing you can't do on a Mac that you can do on a PC.   So please
> list Mac OS X somewhere on your pages.  If Whistler, a project I
> barely heard about is a commercial project based on FreeBSD is on
> your site, so should Mac OS X be.  I mean Apple is having us pay $129
> for Mac OS X, and the software is giving the FreeBSD project exposure
> to the real consumer world.  Is there anything wrong about
> acknowledging it at least?

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