From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Apr 19 07:05:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA23863 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 07:05:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mexcom.net (ver2-71.uninet.net.mx [200.38.135.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23807 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 14:04:22 GMT (envelope-from eculp@ver1.telmex.net.mx) Received: from mc.mexcom.net (telmex@ppp-5.mexcom.net [206.103.65.197]) by ns.mexcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA02636 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 09:01:35 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3539F70A.386A550A@ver1.telmex.net.mx> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 08:07:22 -0500 From: Edwin Culp Organization: Mexico Communicates, S.A. de C.V. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.18 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: salesman is thinking..... References: <35390C79.13956D1B@ver1.telmex.net.mx> <35390E3D.CE6B786F@ibm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don Wilde wrote: > > Edwin Culp wrote: > > > > Time to put on my flame proof suit. I can't wait any more. What is > > wrong > > with comming up with a vga xwindows and a simple mozilla as a > > configuration > > front end for configuration. This is the front end that more than maybe > > 80 Million people are using. Doesn't this tell us something? How many > > people are using Tcl/Tk or any other option? > > Well, actually, I sorta had something like that in the back of my mind, > but you have to have the Apache AND the Mozilla AND the poisonous CGI script language> loaded to go there. I don't see the CGI script language as a problem. It would probably be better to only use one as we normally use C but we have C++, perl, awk, sh, etc happily coexisting as I assume most everyone else has. I see this as the real marketing oportunity. Your machine comes up with the familiar Netscape in a windows environment that isn't too different "cosmetically" from what they are used to. ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message