From: "Glenn Meadows" 

No Idea who's doing it, or the status.  I know I've had OSX on my Mac for
about as long as it's been out, and as soon as the O.S. office package has
been out, the native x version has been under development.  I think you can
run it in the X.11 environment, but that's less than optimal.

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Glenn M.
"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 19:21:44 -0600, "Glenn Meadows"
>  wrote:
>
>>Been in the works for a LONG time..
>
> Ah, I didn't know that, as I've had zero involvement with Macs until
> very recently.  You'd think that Apple would do the port and include
> the app with their PCs, as another selling point.
>
>>.will it ever get done, and then will it
>>be updated at the same frequency as the other platform versions?
>>
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>>Glenn M.
>>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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>>> There's one in the works:
>>>
>>> http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/
>>>
>>> On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 16:45:06 -0500, "Gary Britt"
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is there an open office version for Mac OS-X ?  Why doesn't
some Linux
>>>>distro produce a look and feel clone for Mac OS-X?
>>>>
>>>>Gary
>>>>
>>>>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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>>>>> On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 13:35:08 -0500, Mike '/m'
 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> >Also, see the article I posted about Apples
financial report.  It
>>>>> >does
>>>>> >seem that the iPod is pulling a lot of folk into OS-X.
>>>>>
>>>>> iPod definitely, but I think the Apple computing platform is
>>>>> attractive in itself. I haven't seen their desktops, but the G4
>>>>> Powerbooks are extremely nice machines, and Tiger is
both easy to use
>>>>> and reliable.
>>>>
>>

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