From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 19 11:52:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA01807 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.konnections.com (mail.konnections.com [192.41.71.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA01801 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from castle (root@ip204.konnections.com [192.41.71.204]) by mail.konnections.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id MAA16179; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 12:51:11 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <335A7263.1EE50F9E@konnections.com> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:45:39 -0700 From: mike allison Organization: Publisher -- Burning Eagle Book Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Hermit Hacker CC: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , chat@freebsd.org, Joel Ray Holveck Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk And my motivation for Applix is that is IS a commercial UNIX product. In use on Sun within the Defense Department and many other US Agencies. And now available for Linux. Totally (it's my lie, let me tell it) MS OFFICE (Awfice) compatible, with a file amnager and many other utilities along with a couple hundred page manual. ApplixWare is a threat to MS Awfice (Orifice). I don't think Star is, but it has potential. My selling point with Gov't agencies is that they can still use Applix.... or use Applix on both Sun and PC..... (along with X window and Open Look...) -Mike The Hermit Hacker wrote: > My motivation towards Star is that its probably about the best > software that I've seen so far, for Unix, that compares with things like > MS Office...again, if we could motivate developers, we might some day even > see competition for Star on the Unix/FreeBSD platform *shrug* > > Marc G. Fournier >