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New Commercial Word Processor For FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the first-mover dept.

martin-k writes "There is commercial software built for FreeBSD after all... SoftMaker, a German vendor of office apps, just ported the TextMaker word processor to FreeBSD, making this the fifth platform it runs on (after Windows, Pocket PC, Handheld PC, and Linux). Blazingly fast, reads and writes Microsoft Word files seamlessly, and offers everything you expect from a modern word processor. Also coming to your desktop: the PlanMaker spreadsheet and DataMaker database package."

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  1. Re:Productivity Problems by judmarc · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've recompiled and reinstalled the *entire OS* in 20 minutes. (1.5MHz machine.)

    Sure there isn't something you're doing wrong?

  2. Re:Infringement? by evilviper · · Score: 2, Funny
    I am not a fan of commercial apps for OSS platforms, seems contradicting somehow

    You've listened to RMS' ranting too much.
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