From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 12 16:19:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2ED16A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:19:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F2DF43D48 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:19:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:16:12 -0600 Message-ID: <423316A0.8010407@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:19:44 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Don Tyson References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Mar 2005 16:16:12.0837 (UTC) FILETIME=[CF2EA550:01C5271E] cc: Gary Kline cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no flames, please. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:19:48 -0000 >>Don Tyson wrote: >> >> >>>I am running XandrOS Linux on an old Digital PC box. It is almost >>>scarily Windows-like, but installs in a snap and, if you buy the >>>full edition, comes with Crossover Office for all the Windows >>>applications you can't wait to run. On another test box (a Dell), MS Office >>>ran just fine under XandrOS Linux and Crossover Office. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>KDK> That's cool, but isn't it an, um, offense or, um, whatever to that >>lon^H^Hittle >> >>* Umm, woops! "End User License Agreement", I see now it sez.... >> >> > >Yes, you must have a licensed copy of MS Office to install it. You do >not need a copy of the Windows OS itself. > >Don > > Hmm, I don't see any clause in the "Office Standard Edition 2003" EULA that would support my claim, so I publicly repent of any FUD that may have been flung your way. OTOH, the box that the product comes in pretty well states that you need a Microsoft OS ("System Requirements"). I guess one could say that since we're running 5.3, or what-not, we have something "later" :-) It's a rather controversial issue, and the EULA's from Redmond are continually varying in their language. Compare some older ones, and see also things like: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1766738,00.asp http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/17/1318212&tid=125&tid=109&tid=106 (watch out for URI wrapping) I'm not trying to troll now, nor offend; but, based on reading some M$ "documents", as it were, one might very well wonder whether Microsoft really agrees with your last statement or not. Sincerely, Kevin Kinsey