Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 00:32:19 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This just in: Microsoft/Sears Merger Message-ID: <4.1.19981223001616.009eb140@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <199812230107.TAA09822@n4hhe.ampr.org> References: <Message from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> <XFMail.981222204458.asmodai@wxs.nl>
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At 07:07 PM 12/22/98 -0600, David Kelly wrote: >> If you can get 85+% of the software on the market to work on FreeBSD, and >> support my Voodoo2 card, I'll switch.. > >Excuses, excuses, excuses. 85% percent of software doesn't support your >Voodoo2 card, so the requirement that 85% of software support FreeBSD >and the Voodoo2 card is extremely unlikely. If it were to come to pass, >Jordan Hubbard would have done what Bill Gates couldn't do. Did I say it does? I said if I could GET 85% of the software on the market AND my voodoo2 card.. They are separate entities in my sentence.. I'm also referring to the regular PC market.. I don't see me (nor many people in my economic class) to be able to have an SGI or an UltraSparc or anything like that for a home machine. This is a software creation place, but this is also a place of demonstration.. If anything I'm trying to sell myself in demonstration. It's increasingly difficult to try to sell on a platform that the 'average consumer' (keep in mind this is referencing the average consumer in Maine, USA), actually cares about. Windows, people here can understand. FreeBSD, UNIX, Linux (although media lately on that word could spark something), AIX, SGI, SPARC, SUN, all those words, are not really known or have little relevance on the 'average consumer' in Maine. As a network developer in an Educational Institution (Public, at that), I get the wonderous joy of being a consultant too. "FreeBSD", will not sell as a buzz word to these people, but "Windows" will. People that refuse to touch computers in that town know what Windows is.. If you're looking for me to say that I'd wipe all 17.7 gig of storage I have on this machine and install FreeBSD, you won't see that. Yes, I have a FreeBSD machine running X here, as well as my larger machine at work. Yes, I like using both of them. Yes, I am in a Microsoft world due to work. But there are several thousand other people that go to work each morning to a Windows-based PC, so if anything, I'm a sell-out or a follower.. But that's the difference, if I was a leader, I'd have a choice. >Not to mention less than 85% of all software runs on Microsoft hosts. >Apple, Unix, and mainframes have at least 20% of the software market. Again, PC market. K-8 school in Eastern/Central Maine USA in a town with 1800 people doesn't care about Mainframe or Unix, in many cases not even Apple.. If someone ever manages to get WINE to be neck and neck with whatever Windows version comes out (as far as application compatiblity only), then I'll switch. In the meantime, the words are "Office", "Foolproof", and "Encarta"... 2 of the 3 ARE Microsoft products, the 3rd only runs on Windows or Macintosh.. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter OneNetwork Exchange Network Development, Orland Consolidated School http://www.droo.orland.me.us 207-942-0275 / 207-471-2719 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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