While MicroShaft *did* buy a reasonably large stake in Corel, these shares
were non-voting. In other words, M$ cannot influence Corel's decisions
directly. However, it can act indirectly. For example, it could threaten to
sell all of its Corel shares at the same time, sending Corel's stock price
plummeting. This would deter investment in Corel.
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:22, patrick wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> > "The Cube" --Corel's email journal for Linux users-- which came
> > out just a few days ago says that they are actively working on a
> > new Linux release. For what it's worth, that's what it says.
> >
> > At 11:06 AM 11/27/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> > >I also read an article that says Corel is thinking about spinning off
> > > the Linux OS.
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >Andy
> >
> > /snip off the rest/
>
> try to become gates for a moment. what do u think is his
> motivation. to stop wine or corels emulation of windoes
> ummm.
>
> what do u think
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