BSD Question's.

[Danial Thom]

--- dick hoogendijk <dick at nagual.st> wrote:

> On 24 Dec Danial Thom wrote:
> > Schwab Streetsmart
> > Accounting Software (CA)
> > Quicken
> > Photoshop 
> > Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs)
> > 
> > Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there
> are
> > some half-assed alternatives for some of
> these,
> > but if I have to use something inferior to
> use
> > FreeBSD then thats a point against it. 
> 
> NO. It's not a point against the OS. It merely
> demonstrates why lots of
> people stay with windows. NOT because the OS is
> better, but its support
> by *third party soft-hardware* is better.
> 
> Windows itself (the OS) is worse than FreeBSD
> (imho). Those 3th party
> people are responsable for the leading role of
> microsoft.
> Not MS itself.
> 
> I'm convinced (though not proven yet) that the
> software you mentioned
> above will run on FreeBSD (if ported natively
> to the OS) at least as
> good, but I guess even better, then it does on
> windows.

"worse" and "more useful" are different criteria.
A harley davidson may be a better built machine
than any given SUV, but its not as practical or
useful. Its usefulness is limited to enthusiasts
and those with disdain for society, much like the
un*x desktop.




		
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