From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 01:02:05 MDT
Charles Hixson wrote:
> Perhaps you are right. Of course, the only way to get the right to use
> MSOffice is going to be to install it under MSwindows, and MSwindows is
> becoming less and less friendly to having other OSs on the same
> computer. So you are going to be needing to analyse the software while
> using a legal copy of MSWindows. This means your tools need to run
> under MSwindows. And MSOS is going to ensure that only approved
> programs are allowed to execute....
>
Since the main bit of interoperability needed or at least
strived for today is the ability to read/write MS Office
formatted files, there is no real necessity to do this work on
MSWindows.
If MS ever seriously attempts only allowing programs it approves
of to execute when I am running Windows then I will stop running
Windows ever that very same day. As a programmer myself I will
be damned if I will ask Microsoft if I can run my own programs
or beg them for permission to sell them to other people who run
Windows.
- samantha
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