Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 10:53:55 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000708105237.0448ca90@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3966B177.805696E4@mail.ptd.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706190244.0483ad70@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706201218.04a99100@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706222258.046d9c00@localhost>
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At 10:43 PM 7/7/2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: >Brett Glass wrote: >> >> I'm certainly not going to trust a mission-critical, or even important, >> application to emulation. I want to be able to get high-quality >> commercial software which has been compiled and tested for the native >> API and is supported on the platform I'm running. And that means native >> code. > >If that is generally true, then the existence of Linux binary support >will not deter vendors from porting to FreeBSD, because customers will >not be using their products with the Linux layer. Two problems: 1) It may not be generally true (though IMHO it should be). 2) Whether it is true or not, developers will use it as an excuse not to do a port to another platform. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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