[CLUE-Tech] MS Office on Linux -- would you?

[David L. Willson]

I'm not sure this is '-tech', but I'll throw in.
I'd pay, if and only if the product were GPL.  Otherwise, I'd laugh
maniacally, but I would not pay.

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 12:46, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:39:41 -0700
> Jeff Cann <j.cann at isuma.org> wrote:
> 
> > Given this:
> > 
> >  + http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/13/HNlinuxoffice_1.html
> > 
> > If MS Office were available on Linux, would you pony up for it?  Why /
> > not?  How does this affect Linux advocacy efforts to persuade companys
> > to use Linux on the desktop.
> > 
> 
> MS Office is a great product on a lousy operating system with repressive
> licensing practices.  It's availability on Linux would not stop the
> repressive licensing practices.  I'd rather put my money (precious
> little is required) on continual improvements in OpenOffice.