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From: etorwi@eto.ericsson.se (Wiker, Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SALE!!SALE!!!
Date: 01 Feb 1997 17:10:51 +0100
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jheinrich@somewhere.ca.us (J. Heinrich) writes:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 1997 19:28:52 GMT, mcampbel@erols.com (M. Campbell or
> Lee Cremeans ) wrote:
> 
> >How many people with brains would want M$ stuff in the first place? :)
> >
> >Lee C.
> 
> Those that need to use word processors, spreadsheets, databases et al
> in addition to running unix servers.

	Interesting... are you implying that Microsoft Word (to take
one example) is an acceptable word processor? (Easy shot, I know...)

	There are free word-processing and database packages for Unix
platforms that are more than acceptable.

	//Raymond.