[geeks] Hmmm.. food for thought...

Tue Feb 19 05:35:50 CST 2002

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:24:07AM -0800, Fogg, James wrote:
> On a related note, I found the MS support for office-X surprising. Doesn't
> this mean that they are dangerously close to having an Office-for-Linux?

The invisible back-end may port well - anyone know how similar the internals
are between Office for Doze, Mac and OS X?

> That would have the potential to screw the MS Windows O/S platform nearly
> out of existance. Would it be possible to get Office-X running under Linux
> without the source code? How similar to X-windows is O/S-X's GUI?

I believe that both X and Quartz are based on ones and zeroes.  That's about
where the similarity ends.

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