From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Oct 7 17:26:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from staff.cs.usyd.edu.au (staff.cs.usyd.edu.au [129.78.8.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A2BF153BE for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 17:26:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhenry@black.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au) Subject: Re: An article from Microsoft To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:26:20 +1000 (EST) From: "Michael Kenneth Henry" In-Reply-To: <37FCACAA.ABA7E2A1@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at Oct 7, 99 11:22:34 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 581 Message-Id: <19991008002631.8A2BF153BE@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. You're kidding, right? Just because xboing is available for Linux does not mean it's a substitute for "The Need for Speed". > Alas... is there any kind of application *not* available to Linux? Well, Microsoft Office, Links386 (a golf game which I enjoyed immensely in my days on DOS), a flight simulator is another app I miss, and my Dad wants to use Quicken. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message