Subject: Re: Post.Office + NetBSD
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Zdenek Salvet <salvet@horn.ics.muni.cz>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/11/1996 19:20:20
> It's a joke that NetBSD claims binary emulation capabilities for the
> various commercial OSes that it does, because you cannot use those
> emulation capabilities unless you're licensed for the OSes in
> question. Thus, NetBSD's binary emulation of commercial OSes is
> useful only:
>
> (1) for statically-linked binaries,
>
> (2) by people who have licences for the
> (commercially-licensed) libraries in question (i.e., most
> likely are migrating to NetBSD from that OS, or just
> playing around with NetBSD), or
>
> (3) by software pirates, who don't care if they have to steal
> the aforementioned libraries.
It is much easier to buy license for any OS than to persuade
vendors to release NetBSD version of their software.
--
Zdenek Salvet salvet@ics.muni.cz
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