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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: DooM for NetBSD, will it become a reality?
Date: 18 Sep 1994 20:20:42 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca's message of 18 Sep 1994 13:50:52 GMT
In article <35hgjs$t2n@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes:
Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote:
and someone had sent him a Linux box. He said he hadn't heard a word from
the *BSD camps and was sorry but he wouldn't be doing a *BSD port.
: Definitely. Let's get all the *BSDers together and do a mail blitz!
Please don't bother the nice man. It would seem you've already had your
chance.
Thanks for pointing out that I've already had "my chance". But, I
don't think that sending him a 286 with an EGA wonder and a monochrome
monitor would do him much good. Since that's the only excess
equipment I own, and everything else I have I need for daily work, and
I have invested heavily in what little I own to make that possible, I
don't think I missed anything.
While it would be nice if someone who were more equipment-rich would
loan him something, it would also be nice if a commercial software
company would also follow through and serve a market if they're going
to step into it to begin with (free "unix" market). I will not
install Linux just so I can run Doom, and I will not be buying Doom,
since I don't run Linux or Windoze (at home). So, it appears to me
that it is Id who had their chance and missed it.
While the NetBSD/FreeBSD market won't make a large dent on their
bottom line, I'm sure a commercial software house has to have at least
enough resource to temporarily devote ONE PC to a quick port to the
free BSD's. The fact that they played favoritism to the Linux
whiners, simply because there are so much more of them, and they had
the resources to donate a PC to a commercial company, leaves a very
bad taste in my mouth. If they believe in free unix, they should
follow through and just get the other two ports finished -- there has
to be one free PC in the company they could use, I would hope. If
they only believe in free unix when it's convenient, then I will
simply avoid all their products until the time that it is convenient
for them to make products that work for me.
So, I guess what I'm saying is: it would be great if someone could
donate a NetBSD/FreeBSD computer to them for a port. But it shouldn't
be *expected* that a computer need be donated to every commercial
company simply to get a port of whatever software is in question, done
for our OS. After all, isn't the sole reason we pay money to these
people so that they can use *their* resources to develop software that
works for us?
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com michaelv@iastate.edu
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
Working NetBSD ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532
In progress: DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), VAX, Sun4m
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