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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux emulation (Re: Bravo, Soeren Schmidt!)
Date: 7 Sep 1995 01:11:02 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <42i4ef$n1k@kadath.zeitgeist.net>, Amancio Hasty, Jr. <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote:
>
>It does not take that long to ask a vendor for a FreeBSD port. All we have
>to do is to make sure that the bean counters at the software companies
>to keep track of the FreeBSD port requests.
Sometimes I feel like I'm shouting at a brick wall though. If I
had to pick one over the other, I'd rather see a handful of competent
programmers working on cross-platform binary compatibility than
hundreds of people screaming at software vendors for all eternity to
port to their favourite OS. ;-)
>Additionally, the two efforts need *not* be exclusive !
This would be the best scenario!
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org