Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Mar 1999 05:43:47 -0800 (PST) | From | Alex Belits <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux? |
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On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> So what do you think the MS Office instaler for linux will do? Installers > are run with root privileges, so they can do what they want. It will > surelly create a lot of waste over the whole filesystem, modify existing > config files so that some programs stop to work and overwrite the > libraries in /lib and /usr/lib with Microsoft(r) versions. > > They can't stop linux working immediatelly after installation of MS > Office, but I_am_sure, that the installation will make linux or some linux > programs unstable and unusable.
If they will sabotage OS that isn't their, it will be much more serious charge in court than what they have now. And they will have hard time explaining why they couldn't add their version of some library or utility without removing existing ones -- it's not Windows where DLLs replacement is the only way to do changes/upgrades just because designers were genuinely dumb when they made DLLs support.
And why in the world anyone will run anything written by Microsoft as root? If some [skipped] even will make such a thing that has to be root to install, won't it will take more than two days for someone else to write a wrapper that makes chrooted environment where installer will be run as some normal user, but all environment will lie to him that he is root?
-- Alex
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