From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 5 20:09:26 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 5E2BE16A4B3 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 20:09:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7691843FEA for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 20:09:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net) Received: from 202.st-louis-106-107rs.mo.dial-access.att.net ([12.85.106.202]) by mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13) with SMTP id <20031006030923113007o0sue>; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 03:09:23 +0000 From: Jonathan Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 22:09:26 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 To: Advocacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310052209.26807.j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net> Subject: 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 03:09:26 -0000 Hi: I originally ran TextMaker, in FreeBSD, using Linux compat mode. A while back this company asked me if I would like a port of their word processor to FreeBSD, to which I said yes. They have sent me this questionnaire and I am forwarding it on to Advocacy. Some of the questions are not relevant, however the ones that pertain to where they can post additional queries or whether it is desirable to even support FreeBSD is something that more experienced people might want to comment on. I am a FreeBSD newbie. I would say that TextMaker compares well with Abiword 2 and OpenOffice. The install I have here of TextMaker is not as fast as Abiword 2 nor OpenOffice. That being said it has a very nice GUI. OpenOffice seems to do a better job of importing MS *.doc's. TextMaker does have good tables and it's hardcopies are quite good. However, IMHO Abiword will likely turn out to be a very good Word Processor, if not the one most widely used. Nevertheless I do also want commercial companies to port their software to FreeBSD. This enhances the value of FreeBSD and this is the reason why I have forwarded this e-mail to this list. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: TextMaker for FreeBSD Available Now Date: Sunday 05 October 2003 12:46 pm From: "SoftMaker Software GmbH" To: "Jonathan Drews" Jonathan Drews j.e.drews@att.net Customer number: XXXXXXX Dear valued SoftMaker customer: You have purchased TextMaker for Linux. We have just completed a port of TextMaker to the FreeBSD operating system and are making this available as a free download to you. TextMaker for FreeBSD is identical feature-wise to revision 392 of TextMaker for Linux and supports all x86-based FreeBSD systems starting with FreeBSD 4.8. (We simply haven't tested under older FreeBSD builds). Get the FreeBSD installation archive here: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (Please keep this URL confidential.) NOTE: Please do not pass along this installation file or pointers to it. You receive it only because you are a paying customer. We'll have free trial versions later. -------------------------------------------------------------- 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? 2. Does TextMaker for FreeBSD work without flaws on your FreeBSD system? (if not, please file bug reports to beta@softmaker.de) 3. Which printed magazines do you read that cover FreeBSD? 4. Which BSD-specific web sites do you visit? 5. How can we reach FreeBSD users? How can we ensure that more FreeBSD users learn about our software? 6. On which Unix-like operating systems would you like to see TextMaker, PlanMaker and our future office suite software? Send your replies to info@softmaker.de (or simply answer this e-mail and insert your comments). We want to hear your opinion! You can participate in deciding about the future directions of our software. Best regards, SoftMaker Software GmbH ------------------------------------------------------- -- Kind regards, Jonathan