From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 20 21:15:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA05644 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 21:15:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA05636 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 21:15:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA02962; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 21:14:56 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199611210514.VAA02962@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Gary Kline cc: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier), cfortin@ec.camitel.com, FREEBSD-CHAT@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: WordPerfect 7.0 for FreeBSD :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Nov 1996 15:02:20 PST." <199611202302.PAA02890@athena.tera.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 21:14:56 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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