From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 18 19:50:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16404 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:50:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16399 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:50:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00785; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:45:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812190345.TAA00785@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brett Glass cc: Greg Lehey , Mike Jackson , "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:28:33 MST." <4.1.19981218191723.064c4680@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:45:30 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Possibly. It'd be even nicer if Corel would allow > the free version to be a package. Jordan, could > you step forward and ask Corel's CEO about this? You should do some more research on this; Corel are repackaging for bundling deals. At this time, I don't think they'll come at packaging non-bundled deals (they might; we should let the Linux folks fight this one for now). > On the other hand, what if the user has bought > the non-free intermediate or professional versions > of the product? (One of the things they include in > these versions, as I understand it, is a nice > collection of Adobe Type 1 fonts -- the same ones > they distribute with Ventura.) We'd want something > that tweaks the installation of the CD-ROM versions. The user gets an application that doesn't live within the packaging system's scope. That kinda sucks, but WP is pretty polite about where things live, and it's not really that difficult to manage it. > >> and BRANDS THE BINARIES? > > > >Not required. > > So far, I've never encountered a Linux binary that ran reliably under > FreeBSD unless it was branded. You can't be using much then. The only things that need to be branded are static binaries, and the only thing I can think of that comes like that in the way of commercial software these days is Visual SlickEdit (and I've already spoken to them about it, as well as sent them a copy of the brandelf source). VSE is actually pretty nice, if a bitch to install. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message