Amiga GigaPD 3/Amiga_GigaPD_v3_3of3.iso/netbsd/docs/mailinglist-archive/1993-12/text0434.txt

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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
> > Of course, all this requires you to have a spare SunOS license lying
> > around. I don't mind borrowing a prgram or two from my sun3 for testing
>
> This was not the point. You said you don't rate SunOS compatibility useful

This _is_ the point.  Any x can't be considered generally useful unless
a goodly number of people have access to item y which it requires.  :-)

If something like PC-Task requires MS-DOS to run, great, you go buy a
copy of MS-DOS. SunOS for the Sun3 isn't *nearly* as easy or inexpensive
to obtain. Probably the easiest way to obtain one would be to buy a
machine with SunOS -- of course, then what do you run on the Sun? (you
want me to waste good hardware? :->)

Now, maybe the SunOS license allows the shared libraries and ld.so to be
run on more than one machine at the same time with only a single license,
but I doubt it. Most folks don't even have a single license...

> if it can only deal with static binaries. I just told you how to deal
> with dynamic libraries. Whether you want to spare the disk space to keep
> SunOS stuff or not, is a totally different thing ;-)

I have the disk space, I have the libraries. I don't have a second
license. I doubt most NetBSD/Amiga users will even get as far as the
second.

I'm not complaining, I thnik it's great that we have this feature even
if only a few people can make use of it right now.  What I'm saying is,
"gee, wouldn't it be nice if we could make this feature work for more
people?".  It doesn't look like it would be very hard to cook up SunOS
style versions of ld.so and libc.so, which would cover most uses.
(hmm...  we might need libdl too).

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Ty Sarna                 "Oh, I don't know *everything*. I don't
[e-mail]        even know how fish work." -- Joel, MST3K