[CLUE-Talk] Office porting from Mac OS X to Linux

[Todd A. Gibson]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:44:21PM -0700, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> Hey you guys,
> 
> How difficult would it be to port Office on the Mac to Linux?

Very.  Apple built a library (aka "Carbon" or "CarbonLib") in OS X that
is comprised of API's that existed in earlier MacOS versions.  Vendors
can migrate their older products by recompiling them on OS X against
CarbonLib (plus some reworking of code--ports are rarely as easy as 
simply recompiling).

So, there 2 possibilities for getting Office onto Linux:
1) Microsoft can rewrite Office to support X-windows/KDE/Gnome/whatever.
2) Apple can port CarbonLib to Linux.

Both seem Herculean tasks to me.
-TAG