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Date:      Wed, 20 Nov 1996 21:14:56 -0800
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
Cc:        scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier), cfortin@ec.camitel.com, FREEBSD-CHAT@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: WordPerfect 7.0 for FreeBSD :-) 
Message-ID:  <199611210514.VAA02962@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Nov 1996 15:02:20 PST." <199611202302.PAA02890@athena.tera.com> 

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>From The Desk Of Gary Kline :
> According to Marc G. Fournier:
> > On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, I eagerly sent my request for WP 7.0 hope that many will do 
> > > so also. If you don't code this is your chance to contribute 8)
> > >
> > 
> > I *really* hate to put a wrench in the works...but *please* do not
> > send a message to Coral if its only to bolster the numbers.  I would
> > really hate for everyone to send in a mail message, get them to release
> > it for FreeBSD, and find 10% actually buy a copy...it would really really
> > set a bad precedent(sp?), which could hurt us long term... :(

Well, this is a chicken and an egg type problem. In this case, WP 
has to come in first -- then we plaster everywhere that is available
for FreeBSD. I for one I am willing to buy a copy just to promote
other vendors to port apps to FreeBSD.

	Amancio






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