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

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

Read the first line!!!!!!!!
<quote>tomorrow is April 1</quote>
DOH!!!!!!!!
-Colin

On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Larry Botkin wrote:

> How about April Fools day !!
> 
> 
> At 08:20 PM 3/31/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >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
> >--
> >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
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> Larry
> 
> "A complex system that does not work is invariably found
> to have evolved from a simpler system that worked perfectly."
> 
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Regards,
-Colin
--
Colin J. Raven
Linux Registered User #82296
Sat Mar 31 20:39:01 EST 2001
  8:39pm  up 32 days,  1:10,  1 user,  load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.00