Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 13, 2003 02:16 AM
If you're going to use Crossover to run IE and MS Office, then you might as well stick with Windows, because you're helping Microsoft just the same.
You are helping Microsoft to poison the Internet. When you use IE instead of a standards-supporting alternative, such as Mozilla, you are telling web developers that they don't need to worry about standards, and they must as well give in to Microsoft's non-standard protocols.
And you are helping Microsoft to poison Linux. By using MS Office data formats on Linux, and then encouraging others to do the same in your post, you are just locking Linux users into MS formats.
Remember what Microsoft said about their strategy in the Halloween document:
> OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market.
Do you value your freedom? Do you want Linux to succeed? Do you want to be able to access the Internet without paying a toll to Microsoft, now and in the future?
If you answered "yes" to those questions, then don't use Crossover to run Microsoft software.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 13, 2003 02:16 AMYou are helping Microsoft to poison the Internet. When you use IE instead of a standards-supporting alternative, such as Mozilla, you are telling web developers that they don't need to worry about standards, and they must as well give in to Microsoft's non-standard protocols.
And you are helping Microsoft to poison Linux. By using MS Office data formats on Linux, and then encouraging others to do the same in your post, you are just locking Linux users into MS formats.
Remember what Microsoft said about their strategy in the Halloween document:
> OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market.
http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween1.ph<nobr>p<wbr></nobr>
Do you value your freedom? Do you want Linux to succeed? Do you want to be able to access the Internet without paying a toll to Microsoft, now and in the future?
If you answered "yes" to those questions, then don't use Crossover to run Microsoft software.
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