From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 14 19:16:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA09557 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:16:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (root@jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09538 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:16:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul1.u.washington.edu (root@saul1.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.10]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id TAA54086; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:16:47 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul1.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id TAA14169; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 19:15:20 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Jochen Solbrig cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: commercial software In-Reply-To: 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 On Thu, 14 May 1998, Jochen Solbrig wrote: >hello! > >i'm interested in what freebsd users think about using >commercial software. most linux users seem to only >tolerate(?) it. I have no particular aversion to commercial software. As a student I can buy 10,000 CAD packages for 500 bucks. The only problem is that it is not available in source code for FreeBSD. I would love to see more stuff come out for FreeBSD. High end commercial stuff especially. Oracle, ProEngineer, CATIA. (in my dreams) SGI has some killer graphics apps that I would like to see on FreeBSD. I am averse to using an OS that is not stable and bomards me with adverts and slides in OS upgrades ... yada yada. I just get tired of invasiveness at all turns in society. I draw the line at my computer. There is just soooo much really good free stuff. I am so much more a proponent of free software that any interest I have in commercial stuff fades in comparison. (Espy since, because I am a student, I am broke. :)) Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message