Take a look at Simple Document Format at http://www.mincom.com/mtr/sdf/. It's very similar to Perl's POD (which you should also look at), but does more. You can easily convert from SDF to
Remember, this is an X-Ray image. The picture is a false color image that shows 3 different colors: blue for high energy, green for medium energy and red for low energy. I first saw this at the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Granted, not many of the current/. readers would buy office. But there is comercial software available for linux. It doesn't get posted for pirating any more than other commercial software does. Loki sells games, Oracle sells databases. Applix sells their own office suite.
So linux is a viable platform to sell software on. It's just that MS doesn't want to help linux out any. But if they are split, they may very well port office or parts of it to linux.
If MS is forced to make office for other operating systems then they'll just make sure that it isn't as good. Either some features will be "too hard to impliment" or there will be more stability bugs, etc.
They know writing software for windows. If they started writing it for linux they would make more mistakes, simply because they don't know that API as well.
So any version of office on linux would be substandard, and they'd claim that it's a deficiency of the OS.
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Remember, this is an X-Ray image. The picture is a false color image that shows 3 different colors: blue for high energy, green for medium energy and red for low energy. I first saw this at the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
I disagree.
/. readers would buy office. But there is comercial software available for linux. It doesn't get posted for pirating any more than other commercial software does. Loki sells games, Oracle sells databases. Applix sells their own office suite.
Granted, not many of the current
So linux is a viable platform to sell software on. It's just that MS doesn't want to help linux out any. But if they are split, they may very well port office or parts of it to linux.
If MS is forced to make office for other operating systems then they'll just make sure that it isn't as good. Either some features will be "too hard to impliment" or there will be more stability bugs, etc.
They know writing software for windows. If they started writing it for linux they would make more mistakes, simply because they don't know that API as well.
So any version of office on linux would be substandard, and they'd claim that it's a deficiency of the OS.
This doesn't apply if MS actually gets split.
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