This was well after the package system, earlier this year, in fact.  There
are few to no business applications for NetBSD, and the talk about the WINE
project didn't get it.  The programmers were all exceedingly well served by
the stuff the NetBSD guy brought along.  But nobody else was.  And, really,
this is part of what Dennie Ritchie was saying so long ago.  The statement
unix makes, very strongly, is that operating systems are all about
developing new software.  Few environments in history have done as well at
this as UNIX.

The corollary, of course, is that it has been pretty well neglected for
everything else.  The average user isn't going to "get it."  And probably
does not want to in the first place.

BSD, and let's be honest, folks, has a way different mission than Windows.

-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
To: Frank Warren <clovis@home.com>
Cc: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG <netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG>
Date: Saturday, December 04, 1999 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: One Size Fits All


>On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Frank Warren wrote:
>
>> I have, BTW, seen NetBSD developers install NetBSD and get seriously
chewed
>> on for the lack of applications for anyone but a few programmers.  The
>> bottom line is that NetBSD got ripped off of all machines but the
>> programmers machines and Windows installed instead because, really, the
CFO
>> has no use for grep and yacc and awk and sed but does need a good
>> spreadsheet and vi ain't cutting it for the secretaries and support
staff.
>
>Was this before our package system? If not, what applications are
>missing from /usr/pkgsrc that are present on other systems?
>
>cjs
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