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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:07:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Brian Adkins <brian@lojic.com>
Cc:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903222305190.249-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990323010146.00fbf1c0@mailbox.iwaynet.net>

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On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Brian Adkins wrote:

> Brett, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but if you want folks to take you
> seriously, you're going to have to stop making such outlandish statements.
> If you really think developers will "NEVER" target a platform because an
> emulator exists, you're clueless.  And as far as "irreparably destructive",
> you're losin' it dude.

Look at Netscape, or Oracle for that matter.  It was hard enough to get
them to port to Linux, but, with a perfectly working Linux emulator, do
you really think that they'd publically release a FreeBSD version knowing
full well that their Linux binaries should run fine on FreeBSD?

- alex



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