Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 14:32:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, jehamby@lightside.com, root@dihelix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quake's out, where's that Linux ELF emulation? Message-ID: <199602282132.OAA09018@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199602282018.MAA01222@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Feb 28, 96 12:18:10 pm
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> Okay, I understand your position is just that when the linux crowd has > pestered vendors for support they usually have gotten what they > want. From my own personal experience and lets set aside ID because > we all know we are not going to get anywhere with them, every time > I talk to a vendor about FreeBSD I sort of have to explain it in > terms of Linux. Well have you heard of Linux , we are just like > that public domain. Vendor says "Oh, I see I understand. Well we have > received many requests for Linux however just one right now for > FreeBSD if there further requests to port our to FreeBSD we may > consider doing a port" The situation is not aided by the fact that the BSD camp emulates the Linux ABI sufficiently well that companies are of the opinion that they can save themselves a porting effort. The problem with ABI's is that they are short term gain, but long term loss. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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