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Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 12:30:03 +0200
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>,
        Jack Velte <jackv@earthling.net>
Cc: Jason <kib@poboxes.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Why we should not support Microsoft.
References: <01bd85de$fa4b1360$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net> <Pine.SOL.3.96.980523131645.19570A-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980523131645.19570A-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>; from Nicholas Charles Brawn on Sat, May 23, 1998 at 01:20:18PM +1000
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On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 01:20:18PM +1000, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote:
> On Fri, 22 May 1998, Jack Velte wrote:
> > your business or ``business''?  secretaries do not use FreeBSD to type
> > letters, and won't until they can run MS ap's.
> 
> Or applications the equivalent or better than MS app's...
> 
> Is there a list anywhere available that shows all the commercial software
> (that we know of) that is available and/or compatible for FreeBSD? That
> would be a big benefit when showing business managers - they could easily
> see that FreeBSD provides a cost-effective solution that meets their
> commercial needs.

http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/software.html

is supposed to, but it isn't as complete as we'd like.  Feel free to
submit updates.

Eivind.


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