From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 20 09:09:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA28262 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 09:09:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (hal-ns1-22.netcom.ca [207.181.94.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA28250 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 09:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id NAA04267; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 13:09:26 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 13:09:26 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Michael Smith cc: mike allison , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought In-Reply-To: <199704200441.OAA02744@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > > I think the question was DO we need a BSD specific port and the answer > > (SORRY it was just my opinion and I can't speak for the whole world > > Einstein, was Yeah, today we do...) > > ... and yet when the issue was raised perhaps a week or so ago, and > people that have actually worked with ISV's and with OS vendors > dealing with ISV's were sharing their experiences, you were where? > > After listening to their input, which was calm, reasoned and based in > some cases on direct experience with the ISV's in question, you still > claim there's a need for a BSD-specific port of an application which > is available for Linux? > > I'm sorry; I can't see how you can take such a line, except in the > context of rampant fantasy. Geez, I don't know...tell me which argument would be easier to sell: "Hi, you should run FreeBSD because of all the good commercial Linux products that will run underneath it" -or- "Hi, you should run Linux, since alot of the good commercial products run underneath it" I don't want to run Linux, but its like IBM going out with this *great* operating system (vs Windows) and trying to explain how ISVs won't port to them because they have no market, *but*, hey, we can emulate Windows enough to run all the latest MicroSloth products. Of course, what happens when Windows changes their API just so slightly that the OS/2/Windows emulator won't handle the newest code? *shrug* Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org