Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:32:45 -0500 From: Marina Brown <mbrown@btnaccess.com> To: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Most wanted Message-ID: <200403051532.45095.> In-Reply-To: <200403051009.20729.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0403011839470.3269-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <200403050615.55106.dgw@liwest.at> <200403051009.20729.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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On Friday 05 March 2004 01:09 pm, Johnson David wrote: > On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:15 pm, Daniela wrote: > > I'm not speaking of your average code, I'm speaking of high-speed > > assembly language programs. > > Looking back on this thread, I confirmed my memory that it was somewhat > on topic with the applications that keep people from dumping Windows. > When I look around at what people are using on Windows here at work, I > don't see any high-speed requirements. Intead I see Word, PowerPoint, > Outlook, etc. These don't need the incremental speed increase that hand > coded assembly gives you. > IF you want to have more people using FreeBSD - i think the way to do tha= t is not to seek to have more windows like applications - but to try to edu= cate=20 people in using open source programs. It takes some time to get someone who is used to mcdonalds food to enjoy=20 a fine curry. Marina > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org"
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