ZDNet: Why MS Office for Linux is a Win-Win

“In our open source blog, Dana Blankenhorn asks an important
question which Microsoft ought to be asking itself: Would you buy
MS Office for Linux? Let’s go back a few years, to the antitrust
suit brought about by the DoJ under the Clinton
administration…

“The initial decree (by Judge Jackson) was for Microsoft to be
broken up. I expect that, had that happened, Bill Gates would be
even richer than he is today. Why? Simply because an independent
applications-only arm of Microsoft would have asked Dana’s question
years ago…”

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