From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 00:26:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA12131 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 00:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brickbat9.mindspring.com (brickbat9.mindspring.com [207.69.200.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA12125 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 00:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lasher (ip39.irvine2.ca.pub-ip.psi.net [38.29.20.39]) by brickbat9.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA07224 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 03:26:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970901002444.00716c0c@pop.mindspring.com> X-Sender: jrasins@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 00:24:44 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: "J. Rasins" Subject: Re: Since the MicroSloth(tm) jokes have been flowing... In-Reply-To: References: <19970825211642.11606@grendel.IAEhv.nl> <199708251617.MAA01380@i4got.lakewood.com> <199708251617.MAA01380@i4got.lakewood.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 09:16 AM 8/29/97 +0100, you wrote: SNIP >actually /use/ computers for. With Lotus/Wordperfect sinking fast, where is >the competition? In the legal market, Corel has stopped the bleeding, and has even regained a few percentage points of the market. Of course, I realize everyone else outside of legal seems to be switching. What is it that makes people buy it just because it says Microsoft? Other than a well oiled and financed marketing machine geared towards selling at the non-technical executives so that the downward pressure to "jump on the bandwagon" is so extreme, and the fact that many technical people will buy into it since the new mantra is "nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft", or they will support it so that they don't think that the money they spent on their MCSE was wasted or the recommendation to throw out the baby with the bath water in order to replace everything with Microsoft products was wrong, is there any other reason? Admittedly, some of the products are good, and NT does seem to be a good OS, but better than anything else? I just came back from a legal conference and it was sad to hear how many firms are buying into the everything Microsoft. <> My personal goal is to see if I can eliminate all Microsoft products from my PC, including the OS, yet still be able to use Windows 95 based applications if necessary, or where replacements native to the new OS aren't available or comparable. Linux / FreeBSD are first choices with each loaded on a machine at home. Any pointers?