Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:57:41 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000815195650.68978H-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <200008151755.KAA03351@mindspring.com>
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > > > Second step? Get Bristol or one of the other Win32 -> Unix portability > > > companies to support FreeBSD. > > > > > > That only applies for things moving off win32 to also supporting unix, not > > to the old fish that already do support unix. > > Not exactly. There are quite a few products out there which currently > use these toolsets as the basis of their Unix support. Wind River's > Tornado is one, there are quite few more I've encountered under Solaris. > > It seems to be a trend, for better or worse. I've had more than one > vendor cite the lack of these toolsets for FreeBSD as a factor limiting > their support. > Didn't know that. > > For the other's, it's supporting standdards, having Motif/CDE/whatever > > toolkit available and standard supported easily is the key. > > I'd argue that Motif/CDE has done more to harm the Unix marketplace > than anything else, not counting Windows (but that's another troll :-) > Maybe - but that's irrelevant if teh tool needs motif. Or some X server extensions. Or anything else that we don't have (yet). > Cheers, > > Jerry Hicks > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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