Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 19:59:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Brian Handy <handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu> Cc: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Bob Willcox <bob@pmr.com>, hackers list <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905101951540.401-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905101730440.27392-100000@lambic.physics.montana.edu>
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On Mon, 10 May 1999, Brian Handy wrote: > >> The dates keep moving, the explanations remain non-existent. The > >> customers who invested in this worthy cause might merit some small > >> explanation why delivery date has thus far moved ahead two years. > > > >Perhaps you should demand your money back? > > Maybe I should, but I won't. Open source is great, but I also support > commercial entities making a buck off me as well, there's nothing wrong > with that. I'm just saying it's easier to stay in the game when you have > the warm fuzzies that someone's really working on the problem and forward > progress is being made. That's a good idea. Folks who walk around bad-mouthing anything that is sold for money, well, that's a blind prejudice, and about as accurate as most blind prejudices. FWIW, there is NOT a good WYSIWYG free wp. The only ones out there use TeX as a backdrop, which means they are extremely dependent on initial document style, and awfully hard to modify in midstream. They are good tools, but there is NOT one single free wp in the useability range of applixware or WordPerfect. I wish there was, but wishing won't make it so, and bad mouthing anything commercial won't either. Mike's right about Applixware being huge, that's one strong reason I went with WordPerfect, because applixware (the Linux version) nearly eats up a disk all by itself it's so huge. Regardless, if it's a question of porting only, I don't care if it's a 10 million line job, a year is a long time for porting only, especially to a platform as easy to port to as FreeBSD. Unless the company involved is just not willing to give enough hours a week to it. With FreeBSD's demonstrated utter lack of concern over maintaining a stable API for developers, it's not hard to see why folks wouldn't be anxious to sell to us. > > > > Brian > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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