Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 23:37:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: fjrm@yahoo.com (Francisco Reyes), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: www.tucows.com messed up with BSD link Message-ID: <200008072337.QAA07470@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000804094036.05078a20@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Aug 04, 2000 09:43:02 AM
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> Reminds me of what Borland said when I asked if they would > port their Delphi compiler to FreeBSD. Their marketing > manager replied, "Which distribution of Linux is that?" > > Alas, Borland has been more guilty than most of jumping > on bandwagons and ignoring better opportunities. That's why > they devoted all of their resources to Windows, and nearly > lost the entire company by doing so. Heh. I remember when I found a grevious bug in their C library, worked dilligently to create a fix, and then told them I would trade the fix for a T-shirt. They didn't want to part with the T-shirt, so I didn't part with the fix; it cost me significantly more than a T-shirt worth of time to fix the frigging thing... Borland has always been a bit strange; for me to have the C library and source and wherewithal to do the fix, I had to have been using their tools a long time, been very familiar with them, paid for the highest-end version of their tools, and otherwise been a good customer of theirs. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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