Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Mar 1999 15:24:08 +0100 | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux? | From | (Dietmar Stein) |
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Hi guys,
I followed this discussion a little bit, but don't where the starting point is... never mind. After reading the last ten or twenty messages with the same topic, I would like to agree to Mikulas.
1.) I think Bill Gates was, is and will be what we call in German "Abstauber" or "Trittbrettfahrer" (excuse me, I don't know the english words for them), because a long time ago (I read it in the intro of an OS/2 book), he buyed some sources for (I think to remember) $20.000 and the sources were called DOS...
2.) I remember the times of the IBM PC-junior with 4.77 MHz and 256 kB RAM... it was slow, if you think of, but it worked. In our days you need a Pentium 4235987759769587 with 57408953406745096856 GHz of speed and a 10943094430 TB hdd to write a letter... if you are using... (you know) and you have to hope that it will work once a time...
3.) I remember that the number of hotlines for supporting the user (or the users problems?) increased very fast after the first release of w95...
I believe, porting any m$-software to linux will start the same silly hardware-upgrading again.
Dietmar
Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > > MS sees a peice of technology as a threat to their monopoly. > > > They try to muscle in and kill it. > > > If they can't kill it, they buy it. > > > If they can't buy it, they infiltrate and attempt to seize control of it. > > > > Well the Federal Government hasn't been able to prove this so I doubt > > that you can either. > > You see what M$ already did. They destroyed dr-dos (windows 3.1 beta > detected dr-dos and displayed a stupid error message). They tried to > destroyed netscape. For example: some micro$oft registry clearing program > (I don't know the name) damages registry so that you can't display > preferences in netscape4 (I really saw it). It's quite effective - when > the user clicks on "preferences" after long time, he doesn't notice that > the error is because of M$ registry cleaning. He simply says that netscape > is shit and switches to explorer. > > Now they're going to destroy linux :-( > > Windows installation programs generally put garbage to registry, modify > autoexec.bat, config.sys, win.ini and other config files and copy a lot of > dlls to windows/system directory over the original ones. And many of these > programs do it without asking the user. > > 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. > > And the user says: "grrr, that linux is shit - when I run Office on > Microsoft Windows, it doesn't crash so often". > > Mikulas Patocka > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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