nemesis wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> And why isn't Linux an alternative?  Why isn't Mac OS X an alternative?
> 
> Linux is cheap but doesn't run Windows software or ports of major 
> popular commercial software like Photoshop, AutoCAD or World of Warcraft 
> without Wine and crashes.

And this is why MS is a monopoly. Because they maintained backwards 
compatibility.

> The issue is that any word processor coming by should handle doc format 
> perfectly -- no matter how good it is at an open format like ODF -- 
> because that's what people send you and expect from you. 

MS made their money entirely on compatibility. Even MS-DOS was 
kinda-sorta-compatible with CP/M originally.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?

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