no flames, please.

[Kevin Kinsey]

>>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