Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 21:13:27 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KMail or Evolution?? Message-ID: <200205060213.g462DR4I052715@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net> of "Sun, 05 May 2002 19:39:32 -0000." <Pine.BSF.4.33.0205051937330.79353-100000@spaz.catonic.net>
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Kris Kirby writes: > On Sun, 5 May 2002, David Kelly wrote: > > A Macintosh is an easier sell to the boss. > > And if they want to flub on the price, you just tell them that the > software is more or less the same or similar for nearly the same price. I wasn't really thinking of the "cost of purchase" sell. Sometimes FreeBSD or Linux can't be justified as the person's "reasons" boil down to little more than "I want to play with it on work time." In prior employment, which Kris knows something about, my job involved keeping roughly 30 SGI and Sun workstations secure and running correctly. Wiping Windows off the 24MB P-133 which was provided for my desk was a very easy "sell". In current employment I'm back to embedded systems. It happens the schematic and PCB tools I've been using the past 9 years are MacOS based. Keeping my Mac is an easy "sell". While I'd *like* to have MacOS X on it, that would be back in the "playing" territory as my tools don't run under X, yet. So I bought a Titanium Powerbook and play with MacOS X at home. When IPsec is added to Darwin I'll use a wireless link (and IPsec) to this FreeBSD machine and may abandon it as my primary home internet user interface. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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