Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:53:59 +0100 (CET) | From | Mikulas Patocka <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux? |
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> > MS sees a peice of technology as a threat to their monopoly. > > They try to muscle in and kill it. > > If they can't kill it, they buy it. > > If they can't buy it, they infiltrate and attempt to seize control of it. > > Well the Federal Government hasn't been able to prove this so I doubt > that you can either.
You see what M$ already did. They destroyed dr-dos (windows 3.1 beta detected dr-dos and displayed a stupid error message). They tried to destroyed netscape. For example: some micro$oft registry clearing program (I don't know the name) damages registry so that you can't display preferences in netscape4 (I really saw it). It's quite effective - when the user clicks on "preferences" after long time, he doesn't notice that the error is because of M$ registry cleaning. He simply says that netscape is shit and switches to explorer.
Now they're going to destroy linux :-(
Windows installation programs generally put garbage to registry, modify autoexec.bat, config.sys, win.ini and other config files and copy a lot of dlls to windows/system directory over the original ones. And many of these programs do it without asking the user.
So what do you think the MS Office instaler for linux will do? Installers are run with root privileges, so they can do what they want. It will surelly create a lot of waste over the whole filesystem, modify existing config files so that some programs stop to work and overwrite the libraries in /lib and /usr/lib with Microsoft(r) versions.
They can't stop linux working immediatelly after installation of MS Office, but I_am_sure, that the installation will make linux or some linux programs unstable and unusable.
And the user says: "grrr, that linux is shit - when I run Office on Microsoft Windows, it doesn't crash so often".
Mikulas Patocka
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