[ale] Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:24:00 -0500

[Joe Knapka]

Well, at least if they embarked on an "embrace and extend" campaign
with Linux, they would have to make the source available. Unless
a court challenge against the GPL held up; scary thought, that.

I'm not sure how I feel about running massive bloatware like
MS Word on my Linux box... I think I'd rather run massive
bloatware like Emacs...

-- Joe

P.S. Emacs is to the "Tower of Hanoi" as MS Excel is to
"Flight Simulator".

Luis Luna wrote:
> 
> You don't think this is a bad idea? Did you read about the trouble they were
> having? Would they just use wine like IBM used in Web-builder or what used
> to be toppage?
> Or really just take and distribute a "Microsoft" version of linux with their
> typical embrace and extend modus operandi.
>  It would solve a lot of their problems, they keep their hold on the
> desktop, they keep their hold on the office suites, and they can dictate on
> their own terms how and where Microsoft brand Linux goes.
> Think the Sun Staroffice decision to go open source had anything to do with
> this FUD announcement?
> > To: mike.phillips at ieionline.com
> > Subject: [ale] Microsoft porting MS Office to Linux
> >
> >
> > hehehehe...the Penguin is growing :-). Thought this would be of
> > interest to
> > everyone.
> 
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