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IBM Wants to Port Office to Linux
shfted! writes "OSNews reports: As part of its initiative to put Linux on the desktop, IBM Corp. wants to migrate Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite to Linux. Microsoft said it's not involved and suggests that IBM might do it by emulation."
Office's ubiquity is why OO and KOffice are pretty much doomed. If IBM can port Office and retain all of the functionality without dragging it down to OO level slowness, why not do it? No more whining about not being able to open .DOC files, unless you're RMS.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
I agree, but not for flamewarring purposes. I tried Gnome for awhile, and generally got a feeling of dissatisfaction with GTK. It's more annoying to theme, and doesn't play well with others. QT has a much more modern design and much more potential.
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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell
so we are going to get virii too
SHE does throw dice.
I hate it how we have put this illusion in front of every user. Everybody thinks that all they have to do is sit on their ass, and the computer will do all the work.
No, people, you need talent and training to use a non-trivial tool (programming languages, databases, server administration) properly.
It's a perfectly valid assumption on the government's part that people will be running some form of Windows, as that is the majority operating system. Why should the government spend my tax dollars duplicating their work, for a vast minority of computer users? Eventually that might become necessary, but it really isn't right now.
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