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

[TANNER Wardrop com]

Whoa, why the abrasiveness?  Even if April Fool's did come a day early, I
don't see it put any of us out any.  Try some decaf before you hit the reply
next time :)

Cheers,
Rob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin J. Raven [mailto:cjraven ddf-lab com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 7:20 PM
> To: Redhat-Install-List Redhat  Com
> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Binaries of Microsoft Office for Linux 
> available!
> 
> 
> 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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