Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:11:42 -0700 From: Maury Markowitz <mmarkowitz@ceiss.org> To: "'freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: An article from Microsoft Message-ID: <C11744CD8825D111960600805F0D1059AC8E11@io.ceiss.org>
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On Thursday, October 07, 1999 7:23 AM, Daniel C. Sobral [SMTP:dcs@newsguy.com] wrote: > > I'm not just talking about ease-of-use. I'm talking about availability > > of applications. > > I claim most desktops do nothing but games and office-type > applications, both of which are available to Linux. > > Alas... is there any kind of application *not* available to Linux? Sadly it's no longer "kind" that's important, but specific names. If your platform does not run a product called "Microsoft Office xx" (where XX is a very recent version) then it does not make a good desktop platform. That may sound silly when you have a product that is a clone of it, but we're talking MIS here. The long and short of it is that if MS doesn't support the platform, it's not a desktop platform. I'm not saying that's logical, the way it should be, or a goal - it's just the way it is. Maury To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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