From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 5 19:13:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.knology.net (user-24-214-63-226.knology.net [24.214.63.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 863D337B408 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 19:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12870 invoked by uid 8002); 6 May 2002 02:13:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO grumpy.dyndns.org) (24.214.210.89) by smtp1.knology.net with SMTP; 6 May 2002 02:13:28 -0000 Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g462DR4I052715; Sun, 5 May 2002 21:13:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200205060213.g462DR4I052715@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Kris Kirby Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: KMail or Evolution?? In-reply-to: Message from Kris Kirby of "Sun, 05 May 2002 19:39:32 -0000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 21:13:27 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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