From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 23 9:30:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fed-ef1.frb.gov (fed.frb.gov [132.200.32.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8D5814E41 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:30:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org) Received: by fed-ef1.frb.gov; id MAA10655; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:30:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from m1pmdf.frb.gov(192.168.3.38) by fed.frb.gov via smap (4.1) id xma009741; Tue, 23 Mar 99 12:28:31 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:28:19 -0500 (EST) From: Zippy Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for Linux To: advocacy@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (sorry if you get this twice; I didn't see the original go through) On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: > > 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 And again, I must remind everyone of the following fact: **** Netscape has shown interest in officially supporting a native FreeBSD port. All we have to do is get people to send a polite, short email to nav-support@netscape.com with this request. One per account, please -- we don't want to kill them with spam. **** Since the original message was mine, I feel I have the right to make the following observation: This isn't Congress or Parliament. Instead of sitting around and discussing ideas all day, why not get moving and DO something? Send the email, THEN re-join the discussion. That's all I ask. If you want me to provide a stock e-mail message for you, please let me know. I personally think this is a bad idea (they'll think it's a spam attempt), but hell -- if you've got writer's block, I'll be happy to draft something on your behalf. This thread has taken many twists and turns, and I fear the original message has been lost due to all the political BS that's invaded the discussion. Maybe it's my fault for not being clearer, so I'll say it again, this time in caps: WRITE A MESSAGE TO NAV-SUPPORT@NETSCAPE.COM AND POLITELY REQUEST THAT THEY OFFICIALLY SUPPORT A FREEBSD PORT. Until you do this or the equivalent, you're not contributing to a solution, no matter how good your intentions. Sorry for the above. I'm just getting a bit frustrated hearing all the reasons WHY something's not going to work, instead of hearing that people are taking a simple step that might MAKE something work. The door is open. Would it help to say that I have information (on NDA, sorry) that indicates that Netscape is *seriously* entertaining this offer? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message