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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."
Big Bleu cheese and WINE?
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
Last one using windows is a rotten egg!
Does this mean we'll finally get clippy?
WOOHOO!
Microsoft needs a way to sell massive mainframes running Linux, so they're porting over the biggest, most resource using, application ever: Microsoft Office.
they certainly wouldn't need to do it by emulation should there be another source leak....*cough*
xao
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It looks like you are trying to build your kernel, would you like me to help?
I have to agree. WINE is cool, but not a solution for the general public. I don't think it ever will be, just by nature of the project.
Of course, if they do a native release, then they have several widget sets to choose from:
1) GTK/GNOME -- piss off the KDE adherents.
2) Qt/KDE -- piss off the GNOME adherents.
3) Proprietary a la OpenOffice -- piss off everyone and have graphical glitches and be slow.
May we never see th
Can someone who has the sourcecode to MS Office please post it on the internet? Thanks.
Does Open Office have Clippy? I think not!
These IBM and Microsoft Reps must come pre-made or something... Petterson... Perrson... come on, too many similarities there. They must buy from the same company.
We can actually use "their", "there" and "they're" correctly which means our English skills surpass those of most US citizens ...
it's in my head
If those Indian programmers are as good as Indian tech support, the Office software they create will be loaded with bugs and full of security holes... That will be a perfect port after all.
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Yee, but I cannot live without Clippy. From CodeWeavers site: "One thing that does not quite work though is Clippy. While it runs well enough for a screenshot it will cause Word to misbehave. This is why it is disabled by default."
MySQL Error 1040: Can't return sig, Too many connections!
ibm will probably just steal the MS office code like they stole that SCO code...
*wink*
Wait unti you see the IBM Emacs commercials coming out this spring. In 3 years, nobody will even remember vi.
Back in the days of M$-DOS and Lotus 1-2-3 there was a saying in Redmond:"DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run".
"And a voice was screaming: 'Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?'" - HST
kill -9 `ps -ef | grep -i clippy | awk '{print $2}'`
1) Escape
2) Meta
3) Alt
4) ???
5) Shift
You found the missing step! Woohoo!
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
And equally annoying!
"Civis Europaeus sum!"
Astronomy 1&1: The sun only looks so small, because it is so far away.
In fact, it's rather large!
Make a port with KDE integration and we can enjoy Klippy!
FoxPro!! (ducks for cover...)