M$ office and Linux?

[Jeremy Fowler]

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.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at 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?
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>
> 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
>
> "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
>
>