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To: dav who wrote (40389)	4/2/2000 6:09:00 PM
From: Don Edgerton	Respond to of 74651

If MS did Office for Linxu, then Corel could sue for MS interfering with trying to market Wordperfect Office for Linux.

To: dav who wrote (40389)	4/3/2000 12:00:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

dav - re: blunt Microsoft's ability to use Office to gain control of the market for operating systems for servers Either these guys confused Office and Back Office - or they think that Office runs on the server... But actually that proposal is not as stupid as it at first appears. Support for word and excel for the Mac was a big early boost for those programs and helped establish the GUI based versions. If MSFT got all of the applications business for any LINUX desktop sales, how bad a deal is that for MSFT? They sell a $200 license where otherwise they would sell nothing...