Besides, in slides distributed to the public, do you really want them editable?
Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no. If the client is paying you to construct a template, prototype, baseline plan, or somesuch, they are paying you, specifically, for something they can edit. They may introduce rendering issues when they do, but at least you have given them a clean start.
IBM is a company that, like other companies, does things like porting clients for the revenue it will generate. When they recognize sufficient demand for Notes running natively on Linux, it will get done.
I expect we are seeing this news as a follow-on to the previously "leaked" memo regarding the supposed desire on IBM's part to move away from Windows on the desktop and toward Linux. Assuming all of this is true (IBM's migration and Microsoft's sharing of code), Microsoft probably recognizes they have little chance of convincing IBM that the migration is a bad idea and wants to maintain the Office license revenue they get from IBM -- Office under WINE still requires licenses. The alternative would be to drive IBM to OpenOffice.
IBM, on the other hand, would probably prefer to avoid OpenOffice since, when handing a PPT to a client, the last thing one needs is a rendering issue.
IBM already offers Lotus Notes to its employees using Linux via WINE -- available for download by employees as part of its C4EB (Client for e-Business). They call it NUL (Notes Under Linux).
I have no special knowledge to substantiate this, but I expect they would take the same approach to accomplish this; it would certainly fit the pattern. In the end, we could see a substantially improved WINE as a result.
... so no penis enlargement ads... Therefore, when I'm using Linux, I know my penis is not in need of enlargement. Reason enough for adoption for me...
That particular feature was one of the first things I disabled in my A2000... The OS polled the floppy, causing an annoying periodic "grunk" sound. Most of the folks I knew who had Amigas (Those who would hang out at "The Memory Location" in Wellesley, MA. When they closed, we knew the platform was doomed) killed that feature with prejudice.
So, there's a question... Does the patent cover polling to see if something has been inserted, or the device interrupting to announce its new state, or both?
If you had asked me, cold, if the russians had operated a rover on the moon, I probably would have said no. But, looking at that picture, I remember it vividly.
As a kid, I was given a coffee table book called "The History of Flight" or some such (I think I still have the book). I remember thinking the picture of the Blackbird was just too cool and the "bathtub" probe too comical to actually be real.
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If I recall the wording on the packaging correctly:
"M&M and the letter 'M' are trademarks of the M&M Mars Company"
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Objects in Mir are closer than they appear.
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Besides, in slides distributed to the public, do you really want them editable?
Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no. If the client is paying you to construct a template, prototype, baseline plan, or somesuch, they are paying you, specifically, for something they can edit. They may introduce rendering issues when they do, but at least you have given them a clean start.
That works, unless you want to hand them something they update and extend themselves.
IBM is a company that, like other companies, does things like porting clients for the revenue it will generate. When they recognize sufficient demand for Notes running natively on Linux, it will get done.
I expect we are seeing this news as a follow-on to the previously "leaked" memo regarding the supposed desire on IBM's part to move away from Windows on the desktop and toward Linux. Assuming all of this is true (IBM's migration and Microsoft's sharing of code), Microsoft probably recognizes they have little chance of convincing IBM that the migration is a bad idea and wants to maintain the Office license revenue they get from IBM -- Office under WINE still requires licenses. The alternative would be to drive IBM to OpenOffice.
IBM, on the other hand, would probably prefer to avoid OpenOffice since, when handing a PPT to a client, the last thing one needs is a rendering issue.
IBM already offers Lotus Notes to its employees using Linux via WINE -- available for download by employees as part of its C4EB (Client for e-Business). They call it NUL (Notes Under Linux).
I have no special knowledge to substantiate this, but I expect they would take the same approach to accomplish this; it would certainly fit the pattern. In the end, we could see a substantially improved WINE as a result.
... so no penis enlargement ads... Therefore, when I'm using Linux, I know my penis is not in need of enlargement. Reason enough for adoption for me...
That particular feature was one of the first things I disabled in my A2000... The OS polled the floppy, causing an annoying periodic "grunk" sound. Most of the folks I knew who had Amigas (Those who would hang out at "The Memory Location" in Wellesley, MA. When they closed, we knew the platform was doomed) killed that feature with prejudice.
So, there's a question... Does the patent cover polling to see if something has been inserted, or the device interrupting to announce its new state, or both?
If you had asked me, cold, if the russians had operated a rover on the moon, I probably would have said no. But, looking at that picture, I remember it vividly. As a kid, I was given a coffee table book called "The History of Flight" or some such (I think I still have the book). I remember thinking the picture of the Blackbird was just too cool and the "bathtub" probe too comical to actually be real.