From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy)
To: offer@sgi.com (richard offer)
Cc: linux@morgaine.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: FYI - free Windows API
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:42:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199706190242.TAA05701@neteng.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
: Even a company the size of DEC couldn't persuade more than a handful of
: companies to port their code to Alpha/NT, and this one-man-and-his-band will
: succeed ?
A couple of counters to that:
a) he's giving it away under the GPL. Linux used that approach
and has at least 3 million, some say 6 million, seats. Linus
didn't get all those seats - he was helped. This guy is
asking for help. Maybe we, SGI, and the other Unix vendors
should contribute a few percent of our engineering staff to
all working on this to catch up with u$oft. Together we stand,
divided we fall - cliche but uite apropos at the moment.
b) did you miss the part about the 8086 interpreter so that you
can just run binaries unmodified? I haven't tried it but I
imagine it works.
As a friend at DEC said - "we need to grow the pie, not shrink it. Linux
grows it. We all benefit". I agree.
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From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy)
To: richard offer <offer@sgi.com>
Cc: linux@morgaine.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: FYI - free Windows API
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:42:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199706190242.TAA05701@neteng.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19970619024218.cPpsDSZKMW6v5fixqwabu-EaPnj2xhOW7TbRyGaYld0@z> (raw)
: Even a company the size of DEC couldn't persuade more than a handful of
: companies to port their code to Alpha/NT, and this one-man-and-his-band will
: succeed ?
A couple of counters to that:
a) he's giving it away under the GPL. Linux used that approach
and has at least 3 million, some say 6 million, seats. Linus
didn't get all those seats - he was helped. This guy is
asking for help. Maybe we, SGI, and the other Unix vendors
should contribute a few percent of our engineering staff to
all working on this to catch up with u$oft. Together we stand,
divided we fall - cliche but uite apropos at the moment.
b) did you miss the part about the 8086 interpreter so that you
can just run binaries unmodified? I haven't tried it but I
imagine it works.
As a friend at DEC said - "we need to grow the pie, not shrink it. Linux
grows it. We all benefit". I agree.
next reply other threads:[~1997-06-19 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-19 2:42 Larry McVoy [this message]
1997-06-19 2:42 ` FYI - free Windows API Larry McVoy
1997-06-19 15:43 ` Martin Knoblauch
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1997-06-19 2:07 Larry McVoy
1997-06-19 2:07 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] ` <lm@neteng>
1997-06-19 2:29 ` richard offer
1997-06-19 3:08 ` David S. Miller
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