From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 19 6:35: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E07B014E04 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 06:35:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with SMTP id IAA18901; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:34:42 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:34:42 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linux emulation != FreeBSD sale (was Re: Netscape browser) In-Reply-To: <20561.921834857@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG With all this talk about Linux emulation I thought I'd share an experience that I had earlier this week. The company that I work for uses Netscape's Directory Server product on Solaris for now, but with a nearly idle Quad CPU Linux box and Netscape announcing an alpha-quality version of a Linux port there is serious talk about using it instead. I know the guy who owns the Linux box and have convinced him to give me a partition or two on one of the drives to install FreeBSD and try running this program under emulation. Now to the crux of the problem. Try as I might I can't get Netscape to record anywhere that I'm downloading a copy of the Linux version only to run it on a FreeBSD box. This is very bad! I download the Linux version. It counts towards Linux sales. Somebody in sales mentions it to another company and they release a Linux version of their product because of bloated Linux interest numbers. This happens again and again, and we arrive at where we are today - Linux getting all the press and support because Linux sales = real Linux sales + sales for emulated copies I don't know the solution to this problem. I do know that using a Linux product under emulation doesn't do much to bolster interest (at least not from the company putting out the product) unless we get the numbers to count in our favor. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message