Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 02:27:21 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Jamie Jones <jamie@bishopston.net> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, davids@webmaster.com, dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Emulation: eg WordPerfect (was Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows)))) Message-ID: <20000710022721.A4192@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <200007092047.VAA79950@bishopston.net>; from jamie@bishopston.net on Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 09:47:11PM %2B0100 References: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKOEKIJJAA.davids@webmaster.com> <200007092047.VAA79950@bishopston.net>
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Jamie Jones said on Jul 9, 2000 at 21:47:11: > > > If the version under emulation were officially supported, why wouldn't you > > buy it? Is it purely for 'religious' reasons? > > I tend to think of running programs under the emulation API as unsupported. > If it were officially supported, that would tip the scales a bit. I may be > wrong, but I would trust a native version more than an emulated version, and > would be much more likely to pay for something that installed "cleanly" > without me having to install a whole load of Linux libraries etc. This reminds me: Corel's WordPerfect 2000 for linux runs under wine, a project that hasn't even reached a "beta" stage of stability yet. It's got reasonably good reviews. There are apparently some performance and window-handling issues which seem to be wine-related, but nothing show-stopping, it seems, though I haven't tried it myself. And nobody is suggesting that Corel's level of support for the linux version will be less because it runs on wine, or that corporate support for linux is becoming undermined because of wine. So why worry about running linux binaries under FreeBSD, something which works an order of magnitude better than wine? If one can get companies to support that officially, that certainly looks like a big gain to me. Aiming to remove linux compatibility is not only unrealistic but extremely undesirable. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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