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

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.