making freebsd known to the world
Ronald Klop
ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org
Thu Mar 31 03:30:29 PST 2005
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:42:52 +0200 (CEST), Svein Halvor Halvorsen
<svein-freebsd-questions at 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.
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