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fyi: Linux Office Suite Consortium - NY Times (fwd)



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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:12:30 +0800
From: Andrew McRobert <mcrobert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: fyi: Linux Office Suite Consortium - NY Times
Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:39:51 +0530
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fyi guys

from:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/08/biztech/articles/14linux.html

"SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13 -- A group of key Linux software developers and
major computer manufacturers are planning to announce on Tuesday at a
Silicon Valley computer conference the first effort to compete directly with
Microsoft's Office suite of applications for the personal computer.
....
On Tuesday, a group of Linux organizations will announce the creation of the
Gnome Foundation, which will have the support of I.B.M., Compaq,
Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and several other major computer vendors.

The foundation plans to announce a set of initiatives, including a unified
desktop user interface and a set of productivity programs intended to
compete as a free alternative to Microsoft Office."

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