> would YOU run software that costs maybe 4-digit numbers for yearly > license on an OS that "maybe" runs it "somehow" ?
Well, _I_ wouldn't run it at all; I don't run software that has onerous licenses. But I can easily imagine circumstances where someone with such a license would want to. First example that comes to mind: when the hardware-in-use breaks. (Yes, they should have a cold spare. Perhaps they didn't (lost track, never thought about it, etc). Perhaps their cold spare turned out to be broken too. I have no trouble seeing either as plausible.) > it seems what youre trying to do is to shoehorn is like stuffing a > 2n3055 in modern microelectronics. Amusingly, I did something vaguely like that just recently: a tiny little surface-mount board with a transistor and two resistors tacked on. Admittedly, it was a 2N3094, a smaller transistor, but still human-scale. > its sad to say that directly, but as businessman, NetBSD is not an > option for now. Then why are you here? NetBSD is an option for at least two companies I know of. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B