Re: How Disingenuous
- From: Steve Baker <ice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: technocracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 23:19:24 -0500
"M.K. Chatterji" <chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Considering that Office 10 for MacOS X (considered one of the
> slickest implementatins of that suite on any platform) is a "Unix
> implementation" of it, isn't it disingenous of this Microsoft
> "Spokesman" to claim that the "engineering cost" for a Linux version
> wouldn't be justified! Sheesh.
Actually it almost certainly isn't a "straight port", considering that most
of the work of porting office would be in the gui arena. The Mac OS X gui
libraries may have little in common with GTK+ or QT. Not that Microsoft
doesn't have other reasons to not port Office. At the non-gui level, there
probably isn't that much difference between Unix and NT, at least none that
can't be glossed over with a simple emulation library, although it probably is
much more difficult to go from NT/2K/XP to Unix than the other way around.
- Steve
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