On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 19:25, Niall O Broin wrote:
> Apropos of Kate's recent mutterings about IE6 running under Wine. I wonder
> how long it will be before the license agreement, which you must click to
> accept, will be changed to only allow running under 'doze. Not that I give a
> particular monkey's for that, mind, but nonetheless. Or at least as likely -
> how long until they fudge IE until it will not work correctly except under
> real 'doze giving various randow instability errors. Paranoid - just ask
> Digital Research (well, it's Caldera now, or did they sell DR-DOS to yet
> another company - I've a notion they did)
>>>> Niall
>
If you think that is bad, wait until they try putting in the EULA for
office, that documents created within Microsoft products can only be
viewed on a Microsoft OS or using a Microsoft product. May seem crazy
now, but it wouldn't surprise me if Linux took off on the desktop.
Speaking of desktops, has anyone tried the latest release of evolution?
The spell checking is very handy.
Phil Trickett
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