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From:
Bryan Steele <brynet@gmail.com>
Subject:
Re: Introducing Word for OpenBSD
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tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 8 Feb 2024 17:08:18 -0500

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  • Crystal Kolipe:

    Introducing Word for OpenBSD

  • On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 02:53:27PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
    > gilles@poolp.org wrote:
    > 
    > > February 8, 2024 10:43 PM, "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org> wrote:
    > > 
    > > > Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> wrote:
    > > > 
    > > >> In the spirit of Microsoft bringing sudo to Windows, it is time
    > > >> we bring Word to OpenBSD.
    > > >> 
    > > >> Same as Microsoft:
    > > >> 
    > > >> 1. Not caring about name confusion
    > > >> 2. Not caring about compatible behaviours
    > > >> 3. Not caring about trademarks or defacto trademarks
    > > >> 4. Not asking the original product teams if it is OK.
    > > >> 
    > > >> This is setting the standard as well as Microsoft will do with sudo.
    > > > 
    > > > Oops, here is the correct diff.
    > > > 
    > > > Are there any other tools people wish to have native OpenBSD versions
    > > > of? You'll be surprised, we can do this really quickly through the power
    > > > of "ln -s".
    > > > 
    > > 
    > > I kinda miss notepad if you can make this happen.
    > 
    > LINKS= ${BINDIR}/mg ${BINDIR}/Word ${BINDIR}/mg ${BINDIR}/notepad
    
    These should really have the .exe suffix. Of course, these won't really
    be Windows PE files, but that won't really matter any won't cause any
    confusion.
    
    -Bryan.
    
    
    
  • Crystal Kolipe:

    Introducing Word for OpenBSD