Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:49:37 -0500 From: Nathan Williams <nathanw@nils.lib.il.us> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Nathan Williams <nathanw@nils.lib.il.us>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Pulse poll at Borland Message-ID: <3073B3378589D411B21600508BAF32AA01234B@EXCHANGE>
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But wouldn't you like to have the choice? > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Heckaman [SMTP:matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET] > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 2:47 PM > To: Brett Glass > Cc: Nathan Williams; advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Pulse poll at Borland > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thankfully we have great development software such as CodeForge > (http://www.codeforge.com) - It's not open source, however they do > actively support a native FreeBSD version. I have been quite thrilled with > it since the day I first tried out the evaluation version. At 50$ for a > Single-User Commercial license, it's very reasonably priced. I don't think > I'd leave it for Borland even if it existed for FreeBSD native. :) > > Matt > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Brett Glass wrote: > > : Borland has a long history of ignoring all but the #1 platform in any > : niche -- a strategy which has caused them serious problems more than > : once. Their support of Windows to the exclusion of all other OSes in > : the 90's made them dependent on Microsoft and practically destroyed > : the company. > : > : When I asked them, at the February LinuxWorld, if they'd be supporting > : FreeBSD, the marketing droid at the booth asked me (I kid you not) > : "Which distribution of Linux is that? I've never heard of it." > : > : The sad part is that their booth was about two aisles away from > : the Walnut Creek/BSDi booth. I don't even think they "got it" when > : the 10-foot-high daemon walked by. > : > : When I posted messages on their site's message boards asking politely > : about support for the BSDs, they simply did not respond. This despite > : the fact that Borland language manager Simon Thornhill claims that > : "Borland does not have a platform agenda." (Odd, then, that they > : support so few platforms!) > : > : In short, Borland needs a serious wake-up call. > : > : A *lot* of people will have to respond to that poll before they even > : consider any of the BSDs, and if we're not #1 (or, at best, #2) they > : simply won't do it. So folks had better vote early and often. > : > : This is a company that up to this point has had little foresight and > : does not have any sense of the value of diversification. I hope they > : will change. I'm not holding my breath, though, as they have been so > : dense for all of these years. > : > : --Brett Glass > > * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.qc.ca http://www.lucida.qc.ca/ * > * GPG fingerprint - A9BC F3A8 278E 22F2 9BDA BFCF 74C3 2D31 C035 5390 * > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (FreeBSD) > Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp > > iD8DBQE50P03dMMtMcA1U5ARAtq7AKDDRE7/VGRGb55BqIWKdBJyL173owCgsxPN > FcI1gwDo9Iirh+GkOgbUZJE= > =MbRK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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