Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 02, 2003 04:13 AM
>In fact, that's one of the main reasons that I > prefer Red Hat over certain other > distributions. For example, I choose to avoid > SuSE, who currently list the ability to run MS > Office as one of their selling points, and
How is the ability to run MS Office bad? wine is GPL, wine allows running MS Office, I dont see the reason for it being bad?!? AbiWord, Gnumeric, OpenOffice all support non-GPL MS file formats. So stop using them too?
> whose YaST software is non-GPL'd, and depends > on a proprietary Qt license. Other > distributions that I avoid for licensing or > lock-in reasons include Lindows, and Xandros.
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Re:Due Diligence
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 02, 2003 04:13 AM> prefer Red Hat over certain other
> distributions. For example, I choose to avoid
> SuSE, who currently list the ability to run MS
> Office as one of their selling points, and
How is the ability to run MS Office bad? wine is GPL, wine allows running MS Office, I dont see the reason for it being bad?!? AbiWord, Gnumeric, OpenOffice all support non-GPL MS file formats. So stop using them too?
> whose YaST software is non-GPL'd, and depends
> on a proprietary Qt license. Other
> distributions that I avoid for licensing or
> lock-in reasons include Lindows, and Xandros.
Qt has long been available as GPL,
read: http://kdemyths.urbanlizard.com/viewMyth.php?myth<nobr>I<wbr></nobr> D=10
and
http://kdemyths.urbanlizard.com/viewMyth.php?myth<nobr>I<wbr></nobr> D=13
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