From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Oct 7 7:26:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDEDD14D51 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 07:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p16-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.163.200.113]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id XAA21859; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 23:24:18 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37FCACAA.ABA7E2A1@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 23:22:34 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Kenneth Henry , advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An article from Microsoft References: <19991007094207.DE283157E5@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Kenneth Henry wrote: > > > Let me respectfully disagree with you. Linux and *BSD, if > > pre-installed and running gnome or kde with a carefully prepared > > desktop and office-type applications is as easy to use as anything > > else out there. > > I'm not just talking about ease-of-use. I'm talking about availability > of applications. I claim most desktops do nothing but games and office-type applications, both of which are available to Linux. Alas... is there any kind of application *not* available to Linux? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "I always feel generous when I'm in the inner circle of a conspiracy to subvert the world order and, with a small group of allies, just defeated an alien invasion. Maybe I should value myself a little more?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message