Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:17:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 for Linux Message-ID: <19981027131745.M20920@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9810261959440.7308-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au>; from Kris Kennaway on Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:04:03PM %2B1030 References: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9810261959440.7308-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Monday, 26 October 1998 at 20:04:03 +1030, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Corel have announced their intention to release a free Linux-native version of > WP8, which they are calling a "personal version" and promise it won't be a > knackered demo. See http://www.corel.com/news/1998/october/linux.htm for the > press release. > > I suggest it would be a good thing for everyone who would be interested in > seeing this work under FreeBSD to go to > > https://livewire.corel.com/cfscripts/Feedback_forms/feedback.htm > > and submit feedback politely asking them to consider a FreeBSD native port, or > to endeavour that the Linux version is runnable under emulation. Why do that? The Linux version should work, and if people get the impression that the Linux port is just the tip of the iceberg, they might decide not to do it again. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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