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

Dave Price dp_kinaole at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 16 12:57:25 MST 2004


On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:39:41AM -0700, Jeff Cann 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.
> 
> Just wondering.
> Jeff
No.

Why not: open office, latex, php|mysql and other substitutes.

speaking of vi... I found something that vi can't do.  MS-Word can't
either, but if you have emacs (the editor that thinks it's an OS)
installed, try:

	emacs -batch -l dunnet

aloha (and good luck),
dave




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