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States Filing Alternate Remedy Proposal for MS Anti-Trust Case

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-hemmed-in-ground-resort-to-stratagem dept.

cbull writes: "News.com reports that 9 states and the District of Columbia will be filing an alternate remedy proposal in the Microsoft case later today. This would close some of the loopholes, better define middleware, require Microsoft to continue Office development for Macintosh and to develop a version of Office for Linux, among other things." There's also a Cringely column about the case. Somehow the phrase "Microsoft Office for Linux" has gotten people all fired up. Do you really want a version of Office for Linux? Really?

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  1. Do I want Office for Linux? by J3zmund · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If that what it takes to get people to shut up about file compatibility problems, yes.

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    It's all Hood
  2. Open Source IE too by pyite69 · · Score: 2, Flamebait


    Apparently they are also suggesting that Microsoft should
    open source Internet Explorer.

    It would be nice to have IE on Linux. I wonder what kind of
    issues this would raise w.r.t. Windows Media and ActiveX...

  3. Office for Linux. by saintlupus · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Do you really want a version of Office for Linux? Really?

    Do you want any x86-based OS besides Windows to get a foothold in the office desktop space, you trolling bastard?

    No Office, no PHBs following your Linux Pied Piper. It would be nice if everyone could get money from the "fucking around with Perl" aspect of computers, but that doesn't seem too feasible these days.

    --saint