From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 22:43:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA28963 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:43:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA28913 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:42:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 38556 invoked from network); 11 Apr 1998 05:42:46 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.128.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 11 Apr 1998 05:42:46 -0000 Received: from barnowl (apm5-176.realtime.net [205.238.146.176]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA02354; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:42:42 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:49:59 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl Reply-To: John Kenagy To: Alex Belits cc: Giao Nguyen , Derek Laufenberg , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Alex Belits wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Giao Nguyen wrote: > > > > Thanks for letting me vent a bit. I am truely impressed with the quality > > > of FreeBSD. It has the potential to be a silver bullet, but it needs > > > killer applications - WORD & Excel. > > > > We don't need no silly Word & Excel. We've got sendmail. :) > > If we won't, there will always be presence of Windows on every desktop, > proprietary fromats everywhere and therefore constant threat of complete > Windows takeover even if the number of FreeBSD installations will increase > hundreds of times. There should be a way to do all work without Microsoft We need Word & Excel or clones there of. Speaking as an old time computer seller. You must be able to do what the other guy does without scaring the user. Or, you won't get convert one. That means word processing, spread sheets, fax, and database. I do not mean big stuff either. Bullet proof, easy to use - intuitive interface and clean looking. The only reason I have so many PCs on a LAN at my house (its just a rumor that I have one in the bathroom...) is that my father, a machinery broker, throws one into a box every year or so and ships it to me then gets a new one. Why? With windoze it gets so full of ka ka ("updates/good deals") that it quits. The one he has now simply hangs up the fax line - MID FAX! No one can tell him why. All he wants to do is get and send faxes, write quotes, and keep a list of customers - which he does in Word - its easier than the database manager. I take his non working system, scrub the disk clean, load FreeBSD, runs like a charm and faster. One problem, software learning curve prevents me from shipping it back to him. Get that one solved and we win. My two cents for the night. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message