Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:15:28 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape browser Message-ID: <4.2.0.32.19990322160933.00aaf6c0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <43958.922144053@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:19:27 MST." <4.2.0.32.19990322141525.00a82b00@localhost>
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At 03:07 PM 3/22/99 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> one -- a strategy that IBM showed to be almost suicidal. However, > >Actually, I think IBM showed it to be suicidal by not doing a very >good job of it in OS/2. Otherwise, it was a fine idea. Actually, it was a really GOOD implementation. For awhile, it could run virtually any Windows application. The reason why it ultimately stopped working so well was that Microsoft moved the API out from under them. And the damage it did, at first, was irreparable. Developers stopped porting to OS/2. By the time the emulation STOPPED working, no one would go back to writing native code for OS/2 because the OS was failing. >I still seriously doubt that anyone in FreeBSD land will do any such >thing - I see neither the motivation nor the available talent (at >least in the same package) to make it happen Well, quite frankly, Jordan, your lack of support for it could well poison the effort. >and, again, have to >wonder at the usefulness of this entire thread. The usefulness of the entire thread, Jordan, is that I'm trying to present a coherent vision and strategy for the promotion of FreeBSD. No platform gets support by divine right; it has to earn it by making the right moves. FreeBSD is falling into old traps and not thinking outside the box, and it's going to lose out as a result. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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