Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:37:00 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 for Linux Message-ID: <4.1.19981027133408.00a64c60@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9810271614310.8752-100000@mercury.physics.ad elaide.edu.au> References: <4.1.19981026231058.009a5ee0@genesis.ispace.com>
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Certainly, but I'm imagining people are saying "How about us Solaris users??" and "huh huh, come on, port it to SCO!".. The other thing is, while Alternative OS (Namely that of the Free UNIX Variety) is on the move, Linux is the most talked about in the media regarding competition to Windows. I think that may have an influence on Corel trying to jump into the market. After all, I don't see Microsoft Office being ported to Linux or anything other than Windows (and Mac). Macintosh isn't even competition (Microsoft holds 150 Mill in Apple stock?), but Linux is competition in the X86 game. But yeah, a little blurb couldn't hurt. But the problem is, how much is too much bombardment? :) At 04:18 PM 10/27/98 +1030, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Drew Baxter wrote: > >> I get the tip of the iceberg thing. Right now Corel is experimenting by >> porting to Linux. If we bombard them with "Hey port it to...." then that >> would not be very fair to them yet. Especially if the Linux version will >> work under FreeBSD in emulation. > >Ah, okay. I see your point, but I think responses which are politely worded >and courteous (i.e. not "You idiots, linux sucks, you should be porting to >freebsd!!!". Religious zealotry WILL scare people off), thank them for their >decision to support the free software community (companies supporting linux >/do/ help freebsd by association as a fellow open source OS, esp. if they're >binary-compatible), etc, and happen to mention that FreeBSD is a potential >market they can look into, will have a positive effect. > >Kris > --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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