Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 14:45:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, sos@FreeBSD.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jdli@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X rated applications Message-ID: <199601022145.OAA12712@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <5248.820269898@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 29, 95 12:44:58 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > If memory does not failed me , the why people don't write apps > > subject was first mentioned by Soren and he proposed yet another > > graphic API. Thats when I started jumping in . Furthermore, it is my > > believe, Jordan, that you want to or wanted to de-emphasize X apps > > due to: > > I do not want to de-emphasise X apps. If you want to write a word > processor, a 3D drawing system or a virtual reality visor that uses X > then by all means - go for it! I'd love to see more of those sorts of > applications available for FreeBSD. If you do do this, please make the word processor look and act exactly like Microsoft Word. This would be a big selling point. Especially if it could use their file formats unmodified, and was independent of host vs. file token stream byte order. Now if we can only get someone to rewrite the rest of MS Office... and then offer a "competitive upgrade" CDROM. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199601022145.OAA12712>