Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

Jonathan McKeown j.mckeown at ru.ac.za
Wed Aug 22 15:32:37 UTC 2012


On Wednesday 22 August 2012 15:41:05 David Jackson wrote:
> So this is clearly not about "portability", FreeBSD is free to implement
> these software interfaces to assure that software is portable to FreeBSD.

Really? You make software portable by writing it to one environment and then 
changing every other environment to suit the software?

I'm not sure software portability means what you think it means.

Jonathan


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