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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. open file formats by BigGar' · · Score: 2, Redundant

    What we really want is M$ to open their Office file formats so other programs can read and write MS files with ease. Fully publishing their OS API's would help a lot also. These two things available as a free download to anyone that wants them would go a long way to helping out.

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  2. File Type Definition by lysurgon · · Score: 2, Redundant

    What would be really nice would be if they could force M$ to release their file type definitions (or *cough* adopt some open standard). This would allow existing office/productivity software (e.g. Abiword, GNUmbers) to easily interoperate with Word, Excel, et al.

    This would let me work with clients who are M$ based much easier than I do now.

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  3. Re:No thanks on Office for Linux by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 2, Redundant
    What would be a good thing is porting it to Solaris and HP-UX. Those are 2 OSes that are used as a desktop a lot by businesses
    That's why I said I wanted "Office for UNIX" not "Office for Linux".

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