Subject: RE: M$ office and Linux? From: Bill Cavalieri <bcavalieri@gekl.net> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:01:54 -0500 Message-Id: <1026749656.26184.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
www.codeweavers.com the crossover office product allows office to work
in linux.
On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 11:08, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
> Well, I think the biggest problem is that even though OSX is BSD underneath,
> it's Aqua GUI is still very much proprietary. The various shared libraries and
> OS extensions that Office requires would be Aqua based and most likely wouldn't
> be able to run under X without some type of emulation. Which, if you think about
> it, would require a lot of time to reverse engineer. Time, in my opinion, that
> should be used making open source alternatives like OpenOffice better. Let
> Microsoft keep it's Office, I don't need it.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
> > [mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Brian Densmore
> > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 10:43 AM
> > To: KCLUG (E-mail)
> > Subject: M$ office and Linux?
> >
> >
> > Ok, got to ask this one. OS X runs on top of a Unix core (FreeBSD?),
> > right?
> > M$ Office v. X runs on OS X. Any hope of making it run on Linux?
> > That would be just too cool to shove in M$'s face. :')
> >
> > Brian
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> > "Three OS's from corporate-kings in their towers of glass,
> > Seven from valley-lords where orchards used to grow,
> > Nine from dotcoms doomed to die,
> > one from the dark lord Gates on his dark throne
> > In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
> > one OS to rule them all, one OS to find them,
> > one OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them,
> > In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie." john thrum
> >
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