Re: ANNOUNCE: Binaries of Microsoft Office for Linux available!

["Colin J. Raven" <cjraven ddf-lab com>]

You are kidding. Tomorrow is April 1
Yeah.........right...sure
So tell me (and this list) the following (if you can and if you even dare
to do so)
1. How many times will it crash an othrwise rock solid Linux install?
2. How many backdoors are in here for M$ slimebuckets to track what the
real software community is doing?
3. Post some documentation
4. Post a download URL
5. Get a life. You are full of shit.
IF this was even remotely true I'll publicly wear, then eat my own
four-day old underwear.
BITE ME!!!!!!!!!
Have a nice day!
-Colin
-- 
Colin J. Raven
Operations Manager, HDS Lab, Inc.
Harrison, NY
cjraven ddf-lab com
 
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Matt Drew wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> It gives me great pleasure to announce that Microsoft (r) together with
> the co-operation from Redhat Software have made available their widely 
> acclaimed and award winning Office suite for Redhat Linux.
> 
> We had been secretly working with Microsoft (r) Corporation over the past
> 6 months in order to port there Office suite to Linux, and we have
> achieved our goal.
> 
> The Microsoft (r) Office suite for Linux, is distributed under a license
> specifically designed for Microsoft (r) Office for Linux as specified by
> Microsoft (r) Corporation and Redhat Software which gives legal permission
> ONLY to users of Redhat Linux.
> 
> Users of the other variants of Linux systems are explicitly forbidden
> legally from running Microsoft Office on their systems, and doing so will
> render them susceptible to punishment of the highest degree as permitted
> by federal law, or under laws pertaining to abuse of software in their
> jurisdiction.
> 
> Binary RPM's are available on ftp.redhat.com and its mirrors. Please also
> see the announcement and instructions on setting Microsoft Office to run
> on your Redhat Linux system on our website, and also on Microsoft
> (r) corporations website www.microsoft.com
> 
> The source code is not available to download as signing a non disclosure
> agreement with Microsoft (r) was necessary prior to the porting of the
> Office suite.
> 
> We hope you enjoy Microsoft (r) Office and make it your first choice for
> high quality office work under Linux.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Matt Drew
> Peer Review team lead and Bughunter
> Red Hat Consumer Services
> 
> 
> 
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Regards,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven
Linux Registered User #82296
Sat Mar 31 20:10:00 EST 2001
  8:10pm  up 32 days, 41 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.18, 0.08, 0.01