Why not Ubuntu plus Crossover Office? [LWN.net]

Why not Ubuntu plus Crossover Office?

Posted Jul 18, 2005 10:59 UTC (Mon) by csamuel (subscriber, #2624)
In reply to: Why not Ubuntu plus Crossover Office? by ssavitzky
Parent article: The Xandros Business Desktop

As a longtime user of Codeweavers Crossover Office (I started out when they released Plugin and wanted to help fund the Wine effort through their work) I can confirm that I am able to download Crossover Office as:

An RPM
A DEB
A .sh Loki installer that doesn't need root privs for a user to install into their own space

That plus the fact that their license says:

This is a license for one user. The license is not necessarily for a specific user, or a specific computer, but it is for one person at a time.

is a nice change in a world of product activation and DRM..

cheers,
Chris

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Why not Ubuntu plus Crossover Office?

Posted Jul 18, 2005 15:01 UTC (Mon) by ssavitzky (subscriber, #2855) [Link]

Sounds great! I'll have to try it sometime; I have enough Windows users in my house...

How does it do on tax software, specifically TaxCut?

Why not Ubuntu plus Crossover Office?

Posted Jul 20, 2005 11:40 UTC (Wed) by csamuel (subscriber, #2624) [Link]

Being in Australia I've no idea I'm afraid..

Chris