MS Office for Linux?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Ignoring the anti-trust suit for the moment, M$ would probably port MS 
Office to the Unix and Linux marketplace if there was a significant 
market. There is an ego trip by porting to Sun. But, at over $300 per 
license, MS Office would probably not a viable Linux product. 
WRT: Law suit. I suspect that Judge Jackson will try to impose 
something on M$ that is a compromise. Something that M$ might prefer 
to live with rather than appeal since the appeal process will take many 
years.  
 
On 3 Apr 2000, at 13:39, Gordon, Seth wrote:

> I'm also not sure that an independent MS-Office company would be
> maintaining a Mac port of Office.  It might be more useful to MS as a
> weapon aganinst Apple (as shown by the Findings of Fact) than as a
> revenue source in its own right.

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
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