Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 19:23:09 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Keith Woodman" <keith@lightningweb.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot disk Message-ID: <199812160031.TAA32689@laker.net>
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On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:06:52 -0800 (PST), Keith Woodman wrote: >I also saw that staroffice was in there as well. WOW. >And after I spent a couple hundred on Applixware. :-( The SO in the ports is SO 3.1. SO 4 will run under Linux emulation, but SO 5 won't (yet). Applixware is working on a native freebsd version. It was due in November, but slipped to the beginning of the year (like maybe Feb, but may slip again, who knows). I saw Applixware for Linux for $98 at Best-Buy. Perhaps it was *upgrade* priced, if you owned Word or something, I don't know. Walnut Creek shows it (preorder priced) at $99.95. That's the native version, I don't know if they seel the Linux version... I've used the SO 3.1 in the ports a bit, but if you run into any problems, what will the company tell you ? You guessed it, "upgrade to our latest version and if you still have problems...". This should be expected for products sold at commodity prices. If you were paying high prices for custom software/limited market software (vertical market as opposed to horizontal/consumer market), you could probably insist on them supporting the version they sold you and not require an upgrade (but this is difficult, except for *really* large customers). Steve Friedrich Viva la FreeBSD!! Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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