Re: making freebsd known to the world

From: Ronald Klop (ronald-freebsd8_at_klop.yi.org)
Date: 03/31/05

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    To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:30:22 +0200

    On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:42:52 +0200 (CEST), Svein Halvor Halvorsen
    <svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net> wrote:

    >
    > * Ted Mittelstaedt [2005-03-31 01:45 -0800]
    >> > but why is FreeBSD never
    >> > listed on websites of third party applications like firefox?
    >> > In this directory I can't find a FreeBSD package for example.
    >> >
    >> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.1/contrib/
    >> >
    >>
    >> Have you ever built firefox? It requires about 28 ports or so that
    >> are not in the base FreeBSD install, at least for version 4.11, and
    >> that is for the native version of it. And many of these are GPL
    >> so you are just adding trouble for BSD users who need a system they
    >> can use as a base for a commercial product - the last thing they want
    >> to discover is their app linked into some GPL library.
    >>
    >> If the Linux distributors want to bloat their base systems for every
    >> 3rd party application that comes along that is fine.
    >
    >
    > I think you misunderstood. Noone is asking to add firefox (or any other
    > third-party application) to the base system. I think the OP is asking the
    > FreeBSD community to put some pressure on third-party vendors to make
    > freebsd-packages available on their websites. This way the word "FreeBSD"
    > would be mentioned and hopefully noticed.
    >
    > To the OP, I can only say that I might agree, but this is really up to
    > the
    > vensors if they see it profitable or otherwise advantegous to do so.
    > Opera
    > for instance, are marketing their support for FreeBSD.
    >
    > However, I stand by Ted's advice to ask this in the advocacy mailing
    > list.

    I just mailed mozilla about it, but I don't expect an answer soon.
    I will ask this on freebsd-advocacy also.

    Ronald. 

    -- 
  Ronald Klop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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