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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10499 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5128 comp.unix.bsd:13074 comp.windows.x.i386unix:5763 biz.sco.general:9276 Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x.i386unix,biz.sco.general Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: SCO market share References: <1993Dec11.012449.99@kf8nh.wariat.org> <2ec989$knu@vanbc.wimsey.com> <2efuku$4vj@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu> <hastyCHy8CM.F14@netcom.com> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 17:14:41 GMT Message-ID: <1993Dec13.171441.23344@kf8nh.wariat.org> Lines: 26 In article <hastyCHy8CM.F14@netcom.com>, hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) says: +--------------- | In article <2efuku$4vj@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu> bogstad@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes: | >In article <2ec989$knu@vanbc.wimsey.com>, | >Stuart Lynne <sl@vanbc.wimsey.com> wrote: | >>This is a fact that is *not* lost on application software vendors. People | >>who don't like to pay money for the OS also don't usually like to spend | >>money on application software. So the vendors don't worry about the number | >>of users of Linux/Minix/*bsd/?? simply because they don't view them as | >>potential customers. | | A solid word processor is lacking unless someone wants to polish | interviews idoc and we could have several choices for paint programs | xfig or idraw. +--------------- There's a Linux development group working on a word processor. It's intended to be portable, so supporting *BSD should be no problem at all (heck, one of the developers is targeting OS/2!). ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca Do not taunt Happy Fun Coder. (seen on the Net...)