From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri May 22 20:31:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA23104 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 20:31:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (root@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA23033; Fri, 22 May 1998 20:31:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ncb05@uow.edu.au) Received: from banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.188.1]) by wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with SMTP id NAA26934; Sat, 23 May 1998 13:20:19 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 13:20:18 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn X-Sender: ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au To: Jack Velte cc: Jason , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should not support Microsoft. In-Reply-To: <01bd85de$fa4b1360$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 May 1998, Jack Velte wrote: [snip] > >Not around here they don't....at least not all of them. I just go to the > >ones who give me What I Want, When I Want, How I Want. Nothing more > >nothing less. There are some good companies out there...you just have to > >look beyond your local mall :) > > > your business or ``business''? secretaries do not use FreeBSD to type > letters, and won't until they can run MS ap's. > > -jack Or applications the equivalent or better than MS app's... Is there a list anywhere available that shows all the commercial software (that we know of) that is available and/or compatible for FreeBSD? That would be a big benefit when showing business managers - they could easily see that FreeBSD provides a cost-effective solution that meets their commercial needs. Nick -- Email: ncb05@uow.edu.au - DE 30 33 D3 16 91 C8 8D A7 F8 70 03 B7 77 1A 2A http://rabble.uow.edu.au/~nick - public key available on request. Nicholas Brawn - Computer Science Undergraduate, University of Wollongong. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message