Just like they tweak smb ect.. and try to polute java and twist any thing to there own advazntage. Same ol same ol Will realy get interesting if M$ actualy gets split. Will get more interesting if Mexico , China and Korea realy do pull off there Open Source Linux on there educational sysytems. Korea and China real have the technical how to to actualy do that. Now that would realy put M$ in a bind and realy weaken there international market. You think We got it bad here , look oversease M$ windows in some markets goe for several hundred just for the local version ie Aribac Windows , and they are usualy under the beck and call of the local licenced distributer on whome every one must buy throgh. In Egypt conterfiting has gotten so bad that there are peaple who make raids on local buissiness and force them to produce a local valid licence for each application on every computer they have. Then they are fined for each illegal conterfitted copy. I would realy like to see the look on there face when faced with a liniux based machine with strictly open source software on the GNU licence printed out on you inkjet printer. No halo , no special markings on the licence.
'Tis devoutly to be wished. But I'm afraid that as soon as Wine becomes a threat to MS hegemony, MS will tweak the OS and start producing new products that require the tweak. Hardly a new procedure for them. I still remember the saying from several years back, ``Windows ain't done 'til Lotus won't run''.
Fourth, I often need to interchange documents with people who are running the latest version of Word. Yes, I know about Star Office and use it, but it hasn't (and probably can't) keep up with the Microsoft updates. People will use what they will use, and I don't think I'd get very far in convincing them to eschew Word.
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