Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Jason Clifford
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00

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In article <6varh9$6m4$1@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, Mr S A Penny
<phuae@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk> writes
>In article <6v3547$kbr$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>,
>       unruh@physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) writes:
>>In <6nkoxaAMrKF2EwM4@dlsl.demon.co.uk> Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> 
>writes:
>>...Word 2.0 will not run on most new operating systems, and nooone is
>>allowed to alter it so that it can, and so that it can for example read
>>Word6,7,8,99,... files, because of Microsoft's monopoly and refusal to
>>release source code.
>
>erm, I run word 2 under win95, and I have a converter to read later versions
>of the .doc format...
>exactly which 'new operating systems' were you specifically refering to? linux?

Please be more careful in future to trim the article you are quoting.
The above makes it appear, at first glance, to haev come from me and I
certainly would not have made such a statement.

BTW, with WINE or WABI Word 2.0 can be run under Linux
-- 
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
htp://definite.ukpost.com/

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From: Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/06
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