Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 08:41:47 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mark Diekhans <markd@Grizzly.COM>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape browser Message-ID: <19990320084146.A25246@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990319171820.00c28ed0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 05:26:53PM -0700 References: <4.1.19990319134858.03fd24e0@localhost> <4.1.19990319114734.00b794b0@localhost> <4.1.19990319103804.00a8ec60@localhost> <4.1.19990319114734.00b794b0@localhost> <4.1.19990319134858.03fd24e0@localhost> <199903192134.NAA19894@osprey.grizzly.com> <4.1.19990319171820.00c28ed0@localhost>
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Brett,
On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 05:26:53PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> >>It's not a long shot at all; it's really the biggest chance FreeBSD has
> >>to leverage the success of Linux. Linux emulation, by contrast, was the
> >>long shot -- and in fact a very bad strategy. He who emulates, suffocates.
> >
> >I see little agreement with this assertion; and my experience doesn't
> >agree either.
>
> You claim to write software. But have you ever marketed it? Are you
> aware of what tactics have actually succeeded out there in the cold, hard,
> real world? I'd venture to say that you're refusing to learn from history
> and hence are doomed to repeat it. FreeBSD == the OS/2 of the free software
> world.
At this point it doesn't matter what Jordan or anyone else thinks of this
idea. If you think it's a good idea then just *go and do it*. If it
works, that's great. If it doesn't work, well, that's a bit of a pisser,
but sometimes the world works like that.
Expending all this energy just *talking* about it when there's no code to
talk about is, basically, fruitless.
In fact, it's probably worse than that. There's *nothing* the *BSD folks
can do to stop you (and others) writing a FreeBSD emulator for Linux.
I suspect you might have a harder job selling it to the RedHat, Debian,
and other distributions, but you can at least give it a shot.
If nothing else it'll be quite a cool technology demonstration.
[ Aside: on a related note, the VMWare folks; can a host OS and a guest
OS talk to one another? If they can, it might be more interesting to
*really* push for FreeBSD to be supported as a host OS so we can then
run Linux binaries that way. Linux is already a supported host OS, so
Linux can *already* run FreeBSD binaries. Worth thinking about. ]
Just go and do it.
N
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