From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 20 14:52:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA19764 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 14:52:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.konnections.com (mail.konnections.com [192.41.71.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA19758 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 14:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from castle (root@ip214.konnections.com [192.41.71.214]) by mail.konnections.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id PAA29965; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:51:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <335BEE23.5F4EE85F@konnections.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 15:45:55 -0700 From: mike allison Organization: Publisher -- Burning Eagle Book Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Hermit Hacker CC: Michael Smith , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I dunno Marc: Mike's perspective is that the ISVs, Linux Distributors and *BSD folks are at least partially in bed together. I can't say they're not. I can't say that they're convergent, but he insists that I'm wrong to say that they're divergent. He says they all talk and work together..... I dunno except, he's there and I'm not... -Mike The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > 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