From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Oct 26 18:48:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27779 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 18:48:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA27768 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 18:48:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA12342; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:17:58 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA22963; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:17:45 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981027131745.M20920@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:17:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Kris Kennaway , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 for Linux References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Kris Kennaway on Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:04:03PM +1030 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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