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Date:      Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:13:14 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, Dann Lunsford <dann@greycat.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows)))
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At 01:58 PM 7/7/2000, Will Andrews wrote:

>We could document which Linux syscalls should be changed into what BSD
>syscalls, to ease the job of porting.

"Porting kits" are good if they are well supported. A badly supported one
can drive vendors away. Microsoft offered a porting kit that allowed Windows
apps to be ported to OS/2, but it was so bad that it actually discouraged
and delayed ports. (Micrografx did a good one, so Microsoft bludgeoned them
into dropping it by threatening to destroy their business. This shows that
they thought it was a real threat.)

--Brett



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