From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 10:34:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DF416A4B3 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thuis.piwebs.com (217-19-20-186.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.20.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 183CF43FD7 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:34:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avleeuwen@piwebs.com) Received: (qmail 84456 invoked by uid 85); 6 Oct 2003 17:35:06 -0000 Received: from avleeuwen@piwebs.com by thuis.piwebs.com by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20rc1 (uvscan: v4.2.40/v4288. Clear:RC:1:. Processed in 0.070182 secs); 06 Oct 2003 17:35:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 192.168.0.109) (192.168.0.109) by 0 with SMTP; 6 Oct 2003 17:35:05 -0000 From: Arjan van Leeuwen To: Jonathan , Advocacy Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:34:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200310052209.26807.j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net> In-Reply-To: <200310052209.26807.j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310061934.40181.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Subject: Re: Fwd: TextMaker: Should we support FreeBSD at all? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 17:34:44 -0000 OK, I'll fill this in :). I'm counting on you (Jonathan) to get this information to SoftMaker in some way (or should we mail this directly to SoftMaker?). (snip) > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Should we support FreeBSD at all? Speak up now! > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > We have not made a final decision whether to support FreeBSD > at all and whether to port more applications like PlanMaker > to FreeBSD. > > Speak up now! If you are a FreeBSD user and want to see our > software for FreeBSD, help us make a business case for it > by answering the following questions: > > 1. Should we support FreeBSD at all? Yes. I think the user base is big enough to consider supporting FreeBSD, as other commercial companies such as Opera and nVidia have shown lately. > > 2. Does TextMaker for FreeBSD work without flaws on your > FreeBSD system? (if not, please file bug reports to > beta@softmaker.de) I have no idea. > > 3. Which printed magazines do you read that cover FreeBSD? Some Linux magazines sometimes offer an article on FreeBSD. Mostly, I have to read things on the web. > > 4. Which BSD-specific web sites do you visit? www.daemonnews.org, www.bsdforums.org, www.freshports.org. > > 5. How can we reach FreeBSD users? How can we ensure that > more FreeBSD users learn about our software? Advertise at freshports.org, a lot of people in the FreeBSD community visit this site. > > 6. On which Unix-like operating systems would you like to > see TextMaker, PlanMaker and our future office suite software? For me personally, FreeBSD would be enough :). Arjan