Re: Re[2]: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-20 Thread George at Clug
Well said, Michael. On Saturday, 20-07-2024 at 20:19 Michael Grant wrote: > My opinions only... > > 1) MS Office (Word/Excel/PPT/etc) has never been available for > Unix/Gnu-Linux. Word and Excel have long been 2 apps users require. > Not OpenOffice. While OpenOffice is quite featureful, it

RE: RE[2]: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Evan Moore
> hope Bill hasn't thought of it... After all, they did invest in apple. yes 150 million worth, but it was on-voting stock, and was a sort of "payment" for the keeping quite about microsoft stealing quick-time source. If the CEO at the time (Gil Ameleo) had any nuts he wouldn't have let apple be

Re[2]: Why

1999-12-05 Thread Bob Bernstein
Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but if the GPL could be broken, I would think it would have been Microsoft > and all its bazillions of lawyers to have already done so. Naw. Firstly, Linux has only reached critical mass as a viable commercial enterprise in the past year. Secondly, it's t

RE: RE[2]: Why

1999-12-04 Thread Paul McHale
Bob, > > The new Evil Empire is not RedHat. That's a mistake many of us have made. > Debian will rue the day it got in bed with Corel. I predict > Obergruppenfuhrer > Cowpland will mount a full court legal press - and soon - to > break the GPL. > You may be right, but I hope you are wrong. I thi

RE[2]: Why

1999-12-04 Thread Bob Bernstein
"Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, you posted this Friday afternoon and got thirteen replies (including > > braindead recommendations such as "get Corel"), none of which you > > Braindead ? It is based on debian ... Do you really think Corel is a bad > distro ? I haven't used i