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From: Bob Eager
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 09:24
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 09:24
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 02:00:40 -0500, Charles Richmond wrote: > On 4/21/2018 9:11 PM, J. Clarke wrote: >> On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 02:44:22 +0200, "Carlos E.R." >> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote: >> >>> On 2018-04-21 18:43, John Levine wrote: >>>> In article <pbfi85$ek7$1...@dont-email.me>, >>>> Gareth's Downstairs Computer >>>> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>> ... by its monopolistic attitude towards the PC now that the World >>>>> and its family are moving en masse to the ARM processors? >>>> >>>> Microsoft doesn't care what processors people use. There are >>>> versions of Windows for all sorts of chips and of Office for all >>>> sorts of operating systems. >>> >>> Ah, yes? Care to say where can we download Office for Linux? >> >> Depends on how you define "Linux". There is an Android version and an >> OS/X version. Most people who use Linux as Linux would reject anything >> from Microsoft on general principle so they probably quite rightly see >> no market there. >> >> >> > Mac OS X is bsed on BSD... Pedantically, BSD has little to do with Linux. I mention this ebcause a number of people seem to think that BSD is a 'Linux distro'! -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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