Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:00:23 +0100 From: "Paul Robinson" <p.robinson@mmu.ac.uk> To: "'Martin Kotulla'" <martin-k@softmaker.de> Cc: info@softmaker.de Subject: RE: TextMaker: Should we support FreeBSD at all? Message-ID: <001701c38d8b$5f59d840$6c01a8c0@MITERDOMAIN> In-Reply-To: <3F831EA6.9040406@softmaker.de>
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> From: Martin Kotulla [mailto:martin-k@softmaker.de] > > Paul: > > OK, second attempt to answer that. I replied through a newsgroup but > didn't realize that this mail2news gate didn't propagate back > my post. No problem. ;-) > TextMaker has a list price of $49.95. As soon as our > additional office > suite components (PlanMaker, DataMaker) become available, there will > also be an office suite-type package. That's quite reasonable. Around the same price point as StarOffice. > We already have the trial version. It is undergoing a bit > more testing, > and we'll make it available in the next couple of days. Let us know when it is, and I'll take a look. > TextMaker for Linux already worked very nicely under Linux > emulation on > FreeBSD and NetBSD. That doesn't surprise me at all. I'll bet you $5 that it ran faster on FBSD under Linux emul than it did on Linux too. :-) > We did the port (a) because it was easy (just one source code change) > and (b) there were a couple of people telling us they'd never > consider > running the Linux emulator on *BSD, and (c) because we could ... <g> Fair enough. So it doesn't cost you anything to natively support FreeBSD in effect? Could we perhaps ask you to do a bit of advocacy about how easy it all was for you? It would act as marketing for you, and might help us win a few battles with some of the people we slowly want to start coming over to us. E.g. Macromedia, Oracle, shock-horror even MS! > That's what irritates me. TextMaker on the vast majority of > systems is > MUCH faster than OpenOffice, even faster than Abiword. It > should load in > one or two seconds and redraw much faster than OO. I guess > we'll have to > wait till the trial version to get a better sampling of TextMaker's > behaviour on FreeBSD. Yup. > One situation where TextMaker will be slow is on systems with > less than > 16 bits of color. Apart from that, TextMaker should RACE on > systems, not > the opposite. How does that work? Why does its performance rely on colour depth? > By many accounts, TextMaker already has better Word import and export > than OpenOffice, and we are continually improving it. We are Oh, nice. If that's true I'll buy it. > Well, there ARE magazines with *BSD coverage, at least here > in Germany. > So I think that question was legitimate ... Yeah, sure. It's just that in the UK, it's a dry wasteland really. Maybe it's time for me to write a few articles and tout them around some of the mainstream magazines. Thanks for your support of our OS. I for one, look forward to seeing more from you in the future.
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