Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:06:15 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: mallison@konnections.com (mike allison) Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought Message-ID: <199704200536.PAA02926@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <335AFD2C.3207212A@konnections.com> from mike allison at "Apr 20, 97 10:37:48 pm"
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mike allison stands accused of saying: > > They all use Applix on Sun as their productivity suite and recently came > out with some new runtime apps which run out of ApplixWare's Database & > spreadsheet. > > Those are Sparcs not 386s. Applix runs on them all and seems like the > BEST and most appropriate package to bring into Free Unix. I couldn't get Applix to come up with an eval version, and I had several preople complain about its poor import/export. FWIW, SO runs on Solaris (sparc) as well; I don't think there's any question of which is the "most" appropriate in this context; we should be encouraging everyone to support the FU marketplace. > RedHat's latest looks absolutely gorgeous and is supposed to > import/export MS Word and WordPerfect. Meaning you can leave MSOffice > at the retail shop.... SO looks very familiar too, and though it doesn't do WP format it's Word import/export is pretty fine. I had a lot of fun editing Yahoo's title page in HTML mode too. 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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