On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 06:25:11PM +1200, David A. Mann 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.
well, wine gets better and better. there may come a point where it won't make a difference... > At the next installfest I think we should set up a machine with xmatrix > running in the root window... :) did that years ago. makes you crazy after a while. i then resorted to having it in the root window of the login screen. did that to all machines in the office, which looks kinda cool: http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/photos/themes/computer/?select=film78-02.jpg i just wish i could use xmatrix as a screen lock without running xscreensaver. i don't want to run a screensaver, i just want to run xlock but i prefer the style of xmatrix over the one that comes with xlockmore. greetings, martin. -- interrested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer travelling in europe open-steam.org csl-gmbh.net (www.archlab|(www|db).hb2).tuwien.ac.at unix bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at systemadministrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin B"ahr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
