Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:02:36 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks? Message-ID: <199803060602.WAA04286@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199803052324.RAA10600@nospam.hiwaay.net> from "David Kelly" at Mar 5, 98 05:24:40 pm
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In some mail from David Kelly, sie said: > > Amancio Hasty writes: > > > > Wandering , if we can get a grant from the goverment to support the SMP > > project or to support FreeBSD ? > > I think you'd stand a better chance with the US Gov if you sold your > pitch as a free and secure replacement for Windows. NT "security" was > pitched hard and only now is the true situation being realized. > > Problem is to replace Windows you would also have to replace Word and > Excel. These days government computers are essentially Microsoft Office > platforms, and Microsoft Office is essentially the OS. Hmm, thre are products, now available such as Applix and StarOffice for some unix platforms...maybe freebsd should be one of those / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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