From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 15 16:41:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA24200 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:41:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nefertiti.lightningweb.com (nefertiti.lightningweb.com [198.68.191.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA24193 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:41:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keith@lightningweb.com) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by nefertiti.lightningweb.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA01621; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:40:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:40:32 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Woodman To: Steve Friedrich cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Boot disk In-Reply-To: <199812160031.TAA32689@laker.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I got Applixware off of RedHat a while ago. Now I'm ticked off that it's so dang cheap. Oh well, so go's the world of computing. :-( Keith ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Woodman Technical Coordinator Keith@lightningweb.com Lightningweb LLC pid 7962 (sniffit), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:06:52 -0800 (PST), Keith Woodman wrote: > > >I also saw that staroffice was in there as well. WOW. > >And after I spent a couple hundred on Applixware. :-( > > The SO in the ports is SO 3.1. SO 4 will run under Linux emulation, > but SO 5 won't (yet). Applixware is working on a native freebsd > version. It was due in November, but slipped to the beginning of the > year (like maybe Feb, but may slip again, who knows). I saw Applixware > for Linux for $98 at Best-Buy. Perhaps it was *upgrade* priced, if you > owned Word or something, I don't know. Walnut Creek shows it (preorder > priced) at $99.95. That's the native version, I don't know if they seel > the Linux version... > > I've used the SO 3.1 in the ports a bit, but if you run into any > problems, what will the company tell you ? You guessed it, "upgrade to > our latest version and if you still have problems...". This should be > expected for products sold at commodity prices. If you were paying > high prices for custom software/limited market software (vertical > market as opposed to horizontal/consumer market), you could probably > insist on them supporting the version they sold you and not require an > upgrade (but this is difficult, except for *really* large customers). > > > Steve Friedrich > Viva la FreeBSD!! > Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message