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IBM Wants to Port Office to Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the couldn't-hurt-things dept.

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."

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  1. *ahem* by Rhinobird · · Score: 5, Funny

    Big Bleu cheese and WINE?

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  2. Does... by sparklingfruit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean we'll finally get clippy?

    WOOHOO!

    1. Re: Does... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


      > Does this mean we'll finally get clippy?

      "I see you're trying to port me to an unauthorized platform."

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  3. well.... by xao+gypsie · · Score: 4, Funny

    they certainly wouldn't need to do it by emulation should there be another source leak....*cough*

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  4. Hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It looks like you are trying to build your kernel, would you like me to help?

  5. Re:I hope they don't.... by 0x0d0a · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:Why ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does Open Office have Clippy? I think not!

  7. Re:Just re-implement it in India... by Bull999999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  8. Crossover Office problems with Clippy ! by killmister · · Score: 3, Funny

    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."

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  9. I always wanted to do this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    kill -9 `ps -ef | grep -i clippy | awk '{print $2}'`

  10. Astronomy 1&1: Size of Sun by benja · · Score: 4, Funny
    "It suits us fine the Microsoft and Sun fight about office application suites. We stay away from that. The reason we don't collaborate with Sun is that they're too small," said Pettersson.

    Astronomy 1&1: The sun only looks so small, because it is so far away.

    In fact, it's rather large!

  11. Re:Why ? by villy · · Score: 3, Funny

    FoxPro!! (ducks for cover...)