Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 22:21:50 -0400 From: "Mikel King" <mikel@ocsinternet.com> To: <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <NFBBJICOAOJNJHMCFMLMKEAACAAA.mikel@ocsinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <001401c1039e$b0327f20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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I've been reading this perticlar thread for a while now, and have acurious observations. I've been doing this for quite sometime now, and the majority of clients that I deal with could give a rat's ass about licensing, or operating systems for that mater. All they care about is if they are able to work on their data, in some sort of familiar application. It's not to say that the typical enduser is stupid, I've just observed that they unlike most of us, do not care. I've been foruntae enough to have a variety of machines available and have recently conduct a little experiment with some of my clients where I let them use my fBSD laptop to access their windows apps via citrix...after a few minor bumps whalha they were rather proficient (well from an enduser stand point anyway). So where am I going with this tangent? Truthfully I am not exactly sure...but I know that StarOffice is very good albeit a bit slow, and of course WP is pretty good as well. The problem is I haven't had much luck convincing the average windows user to switch over (I am still working on it though...) Is it possible that this .NET thing could give BSD a chance to have that one thing that even linux does not? I am also left wondering if it is possible that through their assymilation of Hotmail they learned an ounce of respect for fBSD? Of course what concerns me most about this is what if I were to develope a competing .NET application that turned out to be better than theirs. What's to say that they couldn't revoke their license to kill my product? Ok I must go and fsck my brain for a bit, it's been a rather long day... cheers, mikel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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