> 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.

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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