BSDI vs. LINUX binary format?

[Rodney Thayer]

anybody know the difference between the binary format for BSDI and LINUX?  I 
mean, if I find a program "available for BSDI", what's to stop me from using 
it on LINUX?  Are the binary files incompatible?

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