Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:35:15 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Roland Jesse <jesse@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opera ports to QNX but not BSD Message-ID: <20010518123515.H48909@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010517150555.04774c80@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:11:19PM -0600 References: <20010515121629.A10144@xor.obsecurity.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010515131451.00b13950@localhost> <20010515140528.A11778@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010515141341.B714@zippy.mybox.zip> <20010515142152.A12190@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010515142738.A53178@zippy.mybox.zip> <4.3.2.7.2.20010515153824.045e3e70@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010516115802.0533d100@localhost> <0vg0e4fpgl.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> <4.3.2.7.2.20010517150555.04774c80@localhost>
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Brett Glass said on May 17, 2001 at 15:11:19: > >That the Linux version of the current Opera release runs in emulation > >is IMHO nice to see for those of use using it. Those of us who don't > >(i.e. for religious reasons) are of course free to dislike it. ;) > > It means no support for the platform or its users! NO software > company supports its product running under an emulation. http://linux.corel.com/products/wpo2000_linux/ Runs under wine. There are other examples of software for linux being run under wine, a web search will dig it out. What difference does it make to the customer, if it works? And running linux binaries under FreeBSD is orders of magnitude better/faster/more stable than running windows binaries under Wine. > Do we > really want no support (even if we pay)? Especially for a closed > source product that we cannot fix ourselves? That's precisely the point. Why would we care about a closed source product that we can't fix ourselves? What difference does it make if it's a native FreeBSD binary? Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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