From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jul 11 12: 9:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail1.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D160637B72E for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:09:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 20010 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2000 19:09:09 -0000 Received: from du79.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.79) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 11 Jul 2000 19:09:09 -0000 Message-ID: <396B70B6.18F037C5@mail.ptd.net> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:08:38 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Schwartz Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Schwartz wrote: > > > I was, for the purposes of argument, accepting Mr. Glass's assumption > > that the vendor did not support running the Linux binary on FreeBSD. > > In that case, either the unsupported emulation version works well under > FreeBSD or it doesn't. If it doesn't, then it might as well not work at all, > in which case emulation is irrelevant. If it does, then emulation has given > FreeBSD one more app. > > DS Exactly what I was trying to say. -- I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. -- Lady Bracknell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message