[apetrovic]

What you think would be the cost for porting and supporting Office to Linux? And how many Linux users would pay for desktop Office, either Office 365 subscription or one-time purchase?

They're not charity. They have right to do whatever they want with their source.

[HideousKojima]

>They're not charity. They have right to do whatever they want with their source.

Copyright is a government granted monopoly on intellectual property, not an inherent right. What needs to happen is extreme reform (or outright abolishment) of copyright. Though that's basically a pipe dream right now

[agrue]

MS office is head and shoulders above Libre on Linux. I'd happily buy it.

Not sure on the effort required. I checked GH (not a Microsoft company...) but couldn't find the source code.

People and organizations can act within their rights and still be detrimental other people, organizations, and communities.

[wasdfff]

If they’ve been building it on mac os for decades it shouldn’t be too hard to package it for other unix based OSs. Hire a single engineer and they could probably get something running in six months.