From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 04:00:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E412816A4C0 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 04:00:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from reverendtimms.isu.mmu.ac.uk (reverendtimms.isu.mmu.ac.uk [149.170.192.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 182FE43F85 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 04:00:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from p.robinson@mmu.ac.uk) Received: from agena.mmu.ac.uk ([149.170.168.195]) by reverendtimms.isu.mmu.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 1A7C3n-0002aJ-00; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 12:00:51 +0100 Received: from MMU-HSS-AGENA/SpoolDir by agena.mmu.ac.uk (Mercury 1.48); 8 Oct 03 12:00:51 +0100 Received: from SpoolDir by MMU-HSS-AGENA (Mercury 1.48); 8 Oct 03 12:00:27 +0100 Received: from PRGMMITER (149.170.101.200) by agena.mmu.ac.uk (Mercury 1.48) with ESMTP; 8 Oct 03 12:00:23 +0100 From: "Paul Robinson" To: "'Martin Kotulla'" Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:00:23 +0100 Message-ID: <001701c38d8b$5f59d840$6c01a8c0@MITERDOMAIN> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3F831EA6.9040406@softmaker.de> cc: 'Advocacy' cc: info@softmaker.de Subject: RE: TextMaker: Should we support FreeBSD at all? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:00:55 -0000 > 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 ... 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.