Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: > Kinda interesting speculation, IMHO theres no way microsoft would make a > version of office for linux because altho' they'd get the cash for the > office license, they'd lose an associated OS one, not great business sense > ;-).
Just like Office on MacOS? ;) But then Apple gear tends to be less price- competitive than Wintel, so producing Office for that platform they aren't going to take huge chunks out of their OS market. Producing Office for Linux probably would be a bad business decision since the hardware's cheap and the OS is free. > Doubt they'd build a gui either tho', they've got a perfectly good > gui OS already which has a lot more guarantees as far as software > support goes etc... which is what joe public needs / wants. And why should MS bother building a GUI for Linux when KDE looks so similar by default? BTW I don't know what you mean by "perfectly good" :) I run Enlightenment with the Aqua theme because it looks pretty and I can't afford a G4. At least with X I can actually change the look & feel of my windowing system to suit my preferences. At the next installfest I think we should set up a machine with xmatrix running in the root window... :) Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ (out of date)
