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Re: Ãlectricità de France S.A. Does Real Work on GNU/Linux

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____/ Kelsey Bjarnason on Thursday 11 Aug 2011 20:18 : \____

> On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:20:00 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> New beowulf cluster at EDF (200 Tflops) based on Debian 6.0 Squeeze
> 
> But does it run MS Office?  Don't forget, that's the only criterion for
> determining whether serious work is involved or not.  Anything else,
> from keeping people alive to managing power grids to processing
> billions of dollars in transactions, that's all just frippery and
> nonsense.  Only MSO matters.  :)

Many people are forced to use it (lockin and fake 'open' formats Microsoft
needed to bribe for). And if many people use it at work, well... therefore it 
follows that without Office work cannot be done, right?

Right?

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