On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 15:19 -0800, Daniel Kegel wrote: > Here are a few things a judge could order Microsoft to do that would help > Wine: > * order them to break up into two companies, one for operating systems and > .net, one for everything else > * donate gobs of cash to Wine > * offer a perpetual, transferrable, royalty-free, GPL-compatible license for > its protocols and data formats > * support ODF in Microsoft Office > > That last item is kind of indirect. It would make it much easier for > everybody to switch to OpenOffice, which would make it much easier > for everybody to switch to Linux, which is the whole point of Wine.
Actually, this reminds me of something that would be very useful: free up the Microsoft fonts. A few apps (notably Steam) don't work without either using the Microsoft font directly or drafting a lookalike from scratch. Using free fonts is probably related to the opendocument standard as well. Thanks, Scott Ritchie
