From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 13 09:01:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA17205 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:01:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [195.89.149.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA17184 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:01:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02640; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 17:00:18 +0100 (BST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA02315; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 16:59:56 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19980813165956.A2303@iii.co.uk> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 16:59:56 +0100 To: David Wolfskill , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. References: <199808131438.HAA24625@pau-amma.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808131438.HAA24625@pau-amma.whistle.com>; from David Wolfskill on Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 07:38:15AM -0700 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 07:38:15AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > 5. You have a commercial software package for which a Solaris version is > available, but the vendor/author has shown no sign of being interested > in porting to an OS whose source is freely available. Just out of interest, does this offer open to the door to someone being able to put together a Solaris emulator for FreeBSD, along the same lines as the Linux emulator? FreeBSD: Faster Solaris than Solaris. has a nice ring to it. N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton becomes Just Another Perl Contractor in 30 days. ]==+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message