CodeWeavers, who wrote the CrossOver web browser plug-in for Linux (which allows Windows plug-ins to run under Linux) have now released a system for
running MS Office on Linux. Which is technically a fairly impressive feat; equally impressively, all the code has been contributed back to
WINE, the LGPLed Windows emulation system for Linux; which means that, after all these years, WINE may be becoming more than a technical curiosity. (It's certainly better than things like Lindows, as (a) it isn't based on a customised, dumbed-down Linux distribution, and (b) the code is going back to the community.)
(via Slashdot)
Question: Why on earth is all this energy spent getting Microsoft software to run on a Linux machine? Is there not good office software available on that platform?