Refresh my memory... Didn't you start this thread by COMPLAINING???> Excuse my french, but you're an idiot. It's attitudes like this that > keep companies from releasing software for the Linux platform. Like it > or not, there is a place for both free and proprietary software (unless > you're RMS). Never forget, the GPL is all about "free as in speech, not > as in beer". You're not guaranteed anything for free (as in dollars). > You're simply leeching on the hard work of others. Up to now, I've use 100% free software on Linux (Even my Linux was given to me freely!) and I do not have any complains to make. I've also contributed to code on Linux for various stuff and have offered it FREELY for the benefit of the community.
> I've personally paid for both the Codeweavers Plugin and Office > products. Their stuff works great and their support is *excellent*. I > only wish that all the other proprietary companies out there could > support their stuff like Codeweavers does. > Paying for that??!?! You're the one who's a total fool. It's ridiculous having to pay for that. And without adding to the fact that you're paying MS Office too!!! What the heck are you doing in this redhat list? You're on the wrong list pal.
Codeweavers Crossover Office is not synonymous with Microsoft Office. Crossover Office is a highly customized implementation of wine and some of us (a lot of us, as a matter of fact) are still required by our employers to be able to run MS applications (i.e. Outlook, Word, Powerpoint, etc.) Plus, I haven't found a sufficient replacement for Macromedia Dreamweaver MX yet on Linux. So I'm using Crossover Office for that, as well.
Anyway I do not use MS Office cause it cranky. I use FREE LaTeX for typsetting which Knuth donated FREELY, and my own slidepro software for Presentations. As for the rest I've more efficient substitutes. This is the real Philosophy you stupid ass.
More power to you, if you have the ability to completely get away from using MS products, but that doesn't mean that other people - who mainly use Linux w/ open source apps - are somehow impure. It's just simply that we have no choice, for one reason or another - whether it be an employer requirement, the lack of familiarity with open source equivalents, or that there are no compatible/suitable open source apps.You're hooked to MS products and your plugin that you bought is another way of showing that you can't use real pure LINUX software and that you still really on those weak software.
regards, Didier --- PhD student
No wonder you can get away w/ pure Linux and open source apps... There's no "employer" in the mix... That's gotta be nice, but just wait... There will be one soon...
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