"Microsoft Office isn't among the apps that will run natively on Intel-based Macs - and it won't be until the latter half of 2007, according to media reports. But when it does ship, Office will apparently be missing a feature so vital to cross-platform compatibility that I believe it will be the beginning of the end for the Mac version of the productivity suite."
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Member since:2005-07-06
You must be kidding! Do you happen to know how many people got screwed because developer of their software project found a real job in a local store. Or he's just tired to go on. Or he's lazy to go on. Or just vanished into a blackhole? This happens every day in OSS and MORE often than it happens in commercial world.
And sources won't save your ass unless you have lots of developers who can go on with development. Which is unlikely because if you had, you wouldn't have used an OSS project.
Unsupported stuff is part of every-day risks and, moreover, that decision comes from a company who's know to be supportive of their old technologies. Go figure!
Member since:2006-06-19
Member since:2006-11-15
open source is not a panacea that will solve all the problems. But I want this to be a call to Apple and none of this complaining about Microsoft. What do you expect? Microsoft Office...for their competing platform? Too good to be true.
Apple now has the opportunity to be a key player in OpenOffice. I want to see a true alliance with Sun, IBM, Novell, Redhat, Adobe, Google and Mozilla.
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2006-11-15
this is something Apple users will finally realize. Open source isn't just about geeks who want to play with the kernel code. It's about the users not being screwed around like this.