Do you feel that forcing MSFT to make versions of Office for other OS's will help? Office seems to be a key business application that is a barrier to IT departments choosing Linux or even the Mac OS (since its new versions often follow windows versions by a significant amount of time).
I've read some places that one of the proposed remedies is to force Microsoft to release Office for Linux. It would be a *very* bad idea to force a company to develop and release software that they don't want to succeed. When Office for Linux comes out and it's a steaming pile of camel dung that makes Linux look bad, how can you prove that Microsoft did it on purpose instead of it being just buggy software, basically just version 1.0 problems?
"Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons
for it afterwards."
-- Soren F. Petersen
Forcing MSFT to make Office for more OS's (Score:4, Insightful)
Proving they made Office for Linux suck on purpose (Score:1)