(resent) Ballmer vows to kill Linux giant Google

[phil]

On Sep 17, 2005, at 1:58 PM, James Knott wrote:

> the nice thing about OpenOffice, is that it's available
> on so many different platforms, Linux, Windows, Mac, [...]

While I have nothing against OOo and use it on Linux, its 
"availability" on Mac is more theoretical than actual.  Using Fink and 
X11 to install and run Mac programs isn't a reasonable way to go for 
most people.  Recent quotes from various people on the Fink mailing 
list, concerning OOo:
   "4 days of compiling later I'm not best pleased with the result"
   "the .org update on this computer (the faster of the two) has taken  
_one week_, plus a few hours"

And, of course, even if they get through that they still don't have a 
*real* Mac application.  Maybe someday....
"OpenOffice.org has announced that a native Aqua port of Open Office 
for OS X has been delayed until at least 2006"
<http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/1526253>.

I've never cared to try, but I wonder whether the Windows version is 
any more accessible.  (??)

........................
Phillip Mills
Multi-platform software development
(416) 224-0714

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